My Purple Dreams

O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or displine me in your wrath. ... My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. ... I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning. My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart. All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; mysighing is not hidden from you. ... My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away. ... I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear, like a mute, who cannot open his mouth; I have become like a man who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply. I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God. ... For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me. I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. ... O LORD, do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God. Come quickly to help me, O Lord my savior.

Bits and pieces from Psalm 38.