Oratio: But For You, O Lord, Do I Wait

In today’s Oratio Hour, Rev. Jonathan Fisk meditates on Psalm 38:6-16.

⁶I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
    all the day I go about mourning.
⁷For my sides are filled with burning,
    and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I am feeble and crushed;
    I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

⁹O Lord, all my longing is before you;
    my sighing is not hidden from you.
¹⁰My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
    and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
¹¹My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
    and my nearest kin stand far off.

¹²Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin
and meditate treachery all day long.

¹³But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
¹⁴I have become like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

¹⁵But for you, O Lord, do I wait;
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
¹⁶For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast against me when my foot slips!”

All Scripture texts posted are English Standard Version (ESV)