Psalms 38
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
World English Bible
1Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.
1LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
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, your hand presses hard 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 flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health 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 gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
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 loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
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 in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
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 waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
8And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.
8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
9Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
9Lord, all my 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 throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
11Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
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.
12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits 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 I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
14O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
14Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
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15For I hope in you, LORD. You will answer, Lord my God.
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16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
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17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
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18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
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19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
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20They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
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21Don’t forsake me, LORD. My God, don’t be far from me.
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22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
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