“Log Eye Syndrome”

Please, Lord, don’t punish me when you are mad;
    don’t discipline me when you are furious.
² Your arrows have pierced me;
    your fist has come down hard on me.
³ There’s nothing in my body that isn’t broken
        because of your rage;
    there’s no health in my bones
        because of my sin.
⁴ My wrongdoings are stacked higher than my head;
    they are a weight that’s way too heavy for me.
⁵ My wounds reek; they are all infected
    because of my stupidity.
⁶ I am hunched over, completely down;
    I wander around all day long, sad.
⁷ My insides are burning up;
    there’s nothing in my body that isn’t broken.
⁸ I’m worn out, completely crushed;
    I groan because of my miserable heart.

Judging

7 “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. ² You’ll receive the same judgment you give. Whatever you deal out will be dealt out to you. ³ Why do you see the splinter that’s in your brother’s or sister’s eye, but don’t notice the log in your own eye? ⁴ How can you say to your brother or sister, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ when there’s a log in your eye? ⁵ You deceive yourself! First take the log out of your eye, and then you’ll see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s or sister’s eye. ⁶ Don’t give holy things to dogs, and don’t throw your pearls in front of pigs. They will stomp on the pearls, then turn around and attack you.

Asking, seeking, knocking

⁷ “Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.