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I am numb with pain and severely battered;[a]
I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.[b]
O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire;[c]
my groaning is not hidden from you.
10 My heart beats quickly;
my strength leaves me.
I can hardly see.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 38:8 tn Heb “I am numb and crushed to excess.”
  2. Psalm 38:8 tn Heb “I roar because of the moaning of my heart.”
  3. Psalm 38:9 tn Heb “O Lord, before you [is] all my desire.”
  4. Psalm 38:10 tn Heb “and the light of my eyes, even they, there is not with me.” The “light of the eyes” may refer to physical energy (see 1 Sam 14:27, 29), life itself (Ps 13:3), or the ability to see (Prov 29:23).