Psalms 138
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
1In finem, psalmus David. [Domine, probasti me, et cognovisti me;
2Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
2tu cognovisti sessionem meam et resurrectionem meam.
3Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
3Intellexisti cogitationes meas de longe; semitam meam et funiculum meum investigasti:
4And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
4et omnes vias meas prævidisti, quia non est sermo in lingua mea.
5Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.
5Ecce, Domine, tu cognovisti omnia, novissima et antiqua. Tu formasti me, et posuisti super me manum tuam.
6Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
6Mirabilis facta est scientia tua ex me; confortata est, et non potero ad eam.
7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
7Quo ibo a spiritu tuo? et quo a facie tua fugiam?
8If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
8Si ascendero in cælum, tu illic es; si descendero in infernum, ades.
9If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
9Si sumpsero pennas meas diluculo, et habitavero in extremis maris,
10Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
10etenim illuc manus tua deducet me, et tenebit me dextera tua.
11And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
11Et dixi: Forsitan tenebræ conculcabunt me; et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis meis.
12But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
12Quia tenebræ non obscurabuntur a te, et nox sicut dies illuminabitur: sicut tenebræ ejus, ita et lumen ejus.
13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
13Quia tu possedisti renes meos; suscepisti me de utero matris meæ.
14I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
14Confitebor tibi, quia terribiliter magnificatus es; mirabilia opera tua, et anima mea cognoscit nimis.
15My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
15Non est occultatum os meum a te, quod fecisti in occulto; et substantia mea in inferioribus terræ.
16Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
16Imperfectum meum viderunt oculi tui, et in libro tuo omnes scribentur. Dies formabuntur, et nemo in eis.
17But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
17Mihi autem nimis honorificati sunt amici tui, Deus; nimis confortatus est principatus eorum.
18I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.
18Dinumerabo eos, et super arenam multiplicabuntur. Exsurrexi, et adhuc sum tecum.
19If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
19Si occideris, Deus, peccatores, viri sanguinum, declinate a me:
20Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
20quia dicitis in cogitatione: Accipient in vanitate civitates tuas.
21Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
21Nonne qui oderunt te, Domine, oderam, et super inimicos tuos tabescebam?
22I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
22Perfecto odio oderam illos, et inimici facti sunt mihi.
23Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
23Proba me, Deus, et scito cor meum; interroga me, et cognosce semitas meas.
24And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
24Et vide si via iniquitatis in me est, et deduc me in via æterna.]
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