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		</div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:small;">Lenten Meditation Day 9</span></div>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16562" class="text Ps-38-1">Psalm 38</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="text Ps-38-1">A Penitent Sufferer’s Plea for Healing</span></span></h3>
<h4 class="psalm-title" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="text Ps-38-1">A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.</span></span></h4>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="text Ps-38-1"><sup class="versenum">1 </sup>O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>, do not rebuke me in your anger,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-1">or discipline me in your wrath.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16563" class="text Ps-38-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>For your arrows have sunk into me,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-2">and your hand has come down on me.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16564" class="text Ps-38-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>There is no soundness in my flesh</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-3">because of your indignation;</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-38-3">there is no health in my bones</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-3">because of my sin.</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="en-NRSVCE-16565" class="text Ps-38-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>For my iniquities have gone over my head;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-4">they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16566" class="text Ps-38-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>My wounds grow foul and fester</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-5">because of my foolishness;</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16567" class="text Ps-38-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-6">all day long I go around mourning.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16568" class="text Ps-38-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>For my loins are filled with burning,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-7">and there is no soundness in my flesh.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16569" class="text Ps-38-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>I am utterly spent and crushed;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-8">I groan because of the tumult of my heart.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16570" class="text Ps-38-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>O Lord, all my longing is known to you;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-9">my sighing is not hidden from you.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16571" class="text Ps-38-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>My heart throbs, my strength fails me;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-10">as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16572" class="text Ps-38-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-11">and my neighbors stand far off.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16573" class="text Ps-38-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>Those who seek my life lay their snares;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-12">those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin,</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-12">and meditate treachery all day long.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16574" class="text Ps-38-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>But I am like the deaf, I do not hear;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-13">like the mute, who cannot speak.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16575" class="text Ps-38-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>Truly, I am like one who does not hear,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-14">and in whose mouth is no retort.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16576" class="text Ps-38-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>But it is for you, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>, that I wait;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-15">it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16577" class="text Ps-38-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>For I pray, “Only do not let them rejoice over me,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-16">those who boast against me when my foot slips.”</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16578" class="text Ps-38-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>For I am ready to fall,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-17">and my pain is ever with me.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16579" class="text Ps-38-18"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>I confess my iniquity;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-18">I am sorry for my sin.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16580" class="text Ps-38-19"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>Those who are my foes without cause<;sup class=&#8221;footnote&#8221; data-fn=&#8221;#fen-NRSVCE-16580a&#8221; data-link=&#8221;[<a title="See footnote a" href="#fen-NRSVCE-16580a">a</a>]&#8221;>;[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2038#fen-NRSVCE-16580a">a</a>] are mighty,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-19">and many are those who hate me wrongfully.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16581" class="text Ps-38-20"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>Those who render me evil for good</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-20">are my adversaries because I follow after good.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="en-NRSVCE-16582" class="text Ps-38-21"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>Do not forsake me, O <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span>;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-21">O my God, do not be far from me;</span></span><br />
<span id="en-NRSVCE-16583" class="text Ps-38-22"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>make haste to help me,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-38-22">O Lord, my salvation.</span></span></span></div>
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Lenten Meditation Day 9
