Psalms 38:1–8
Lord, Your discipline is heavy and my sin has overwhelmed me; my body is in pain and my spirit is crushed, leaving me to groan for Your help.
1 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
Lord, Your discipline is heavy and my sin has overwhelmed me; my body is in pain and my spirit is crushed, leaving me to groan for Your help.
To express the profound physical and emotional agony resulting from divine discipline and personal sin, and to plead for moderated mercy from the depths of total human collapse.
Confessing Sin While Waiting for the LORD's Near Help
When sin, suffering, shame, and opposition press in together, the faithful do not hide from God but confess honestly, wait silently, and plead for the LORD their Savior to draw near.