---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 38
verse_count: 22
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 38, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 38

*David moveth God to compassion. A Psalm of David, to bring to re*

**1** membrance. O LORD rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
**2** For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
**3** There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
**4** For mine iniquities are gone over mine head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
**5** My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
**6** I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long..
**7** For my loins are filled with a loathsome distress; and no soundness is found in my flesh.
**8** I am feeble, and broken, and very sore. I have wept by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
**9** Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
**10** My heart panteth, my strength faileth me; as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
**11** My lovers and my friends stand aloof because of my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
**12** They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
**13** But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
**14** Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
**15** For in thee, O Lord, do I hope; thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
**16** For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me; when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
**17** For am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
**18** For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
**19** But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
**20** They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries: because I follow the thing that good is.
**21** Forsake me not, O Lord; O my God, be not far from me.
**22** Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.