Psalms 38
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.
1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
2I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.
2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
3I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.
3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
4My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.
4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
5I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.
5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
6Behold thou hast made my days measurable: and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.
6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
7Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.
7For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
8And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.
8I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
9Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
9O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
10I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
10My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
11Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
12Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.
12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
13Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
13But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
14O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
14I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
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15I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
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16For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
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17For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
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18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
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19Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
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20Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
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21Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
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22Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
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