Psalm 39 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Deliver thou me from all my iniquities : thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

² I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

³ 0 Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

⁴ 1 thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider : surely in vain is any man disquieted.

⁵ 2 Hear 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.

⁶ 3 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

⁷ Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.

⁸ And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

⁹ And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear : and they shall hope in the Lord.

¹⁰ Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.

¹¹ Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God : and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.

¹² Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require :

¹³ then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me