Psalm 38 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly : I roared with the groaning of my heart.

² Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee.

³ 0 My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.

⁴ 1 My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off :

⁵ 2 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

⁶ 3 But I, as a deaf man, heard not : and as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

⁷ 4 And I became as a man that heareth not : and that hath no reproofs in his mouth.

⁸ 5 For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped : thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God.

⁹ 6 For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me : and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.

¹⁰ 7 For I am ready for scourges : and my sorrow is continually before me.

¹¹ 8 For I will declare my inequity : and I will think for my sin.

¹² 9 But my enemies live, and are stronger that I : and they hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

¹³ 0 They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness.

¹⁴ 1 Forsake me not, O Lord my God : do not thou depart from me.

¹⁵ 2 Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.

¹⁶ Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. I 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.

¹⁷ I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things : and my sorrow was renewed.

¹⁸ My heart grew hot within me : and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

¹⁹ I 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.

²⁰ Behold thou hast made my days measurable : and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity : every man living.

²¹ Surely 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.

²² And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.