Psa 38:2-20 | ESV | STEP | For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.

2 For your ^aarrows have sunk into me,
and your hand ^bhas come down on me.
3 There is ^cno soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my ^dbones
because of my sin.
4 For my ^einiquities have gone over my head;
like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink and fester
because of my foolishness,
6 I am ^futterly bowed down and ^gprostrate;
all the day I ^hgo about mourning.
7 For my sides are filled with burning,
and there is ⁱno soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and crushed;
I ^jgroan because of the tumult of my heart.
9 O Lord, all my longing is before you;
my ^ksighing is not hidden from you.
10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and ^lthe light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
11 My ^mfriends and companions ⁿstand aloof from my ^oplague,
and my nearest kin ^pstand far off.
12 Those who seek my life ^qlay their snares;
those who seek my hurt ^rspeak of ruin
and meditate ^streachery all day long.
13 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like ^ta mute man who does not open his mouth.
14 I have become like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no ^urebukes.
15 But for ^vyou, O Lord, do I wait;
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
16 For I said, “Only ^wlet them not rejoice over me,
who ^xboast against me when my ^yfoot slips!”
17 For I am ^zready to fall,
and my pain is ever before me.
18 I ^aaconfess my iniquity;
I am ^absorry for my sin.
19 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
and many are those who hate me ^acwrongfully.
20 Those who ^adrender me evil for good
^aeaccuse me because I ^affollow after good.