Psalm 38. The Prayer of a Sufferer.

Mark_14-38: Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak

O Lord, don’t punish me in your anger!

2 You have wounded me with your arrows;
you have struck me down.

3 Because of your anger, I am in great pain;
my whole body is diseased because of my sins.

4 I am drowning in the flood of my sins;
they are a burden too heavy to bear.

5 Because I have been foolish,
my sores stink and rot.

6 I am bent over, I am crushed;
I mourn all day long.

7 I am burning with fever
and I am near death.

8 I am worn out and utterly crushed;
my heart is troubled, and I groan with pain.

9 O Lord, you know what I long for;
you hear all my…