Psalms 38

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath!	1 Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David.
2 For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me.	2 I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.	3 I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.	4 My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up.
5 My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness,	5 I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.”
6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.	6 Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man.
7 For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.	7 So then, truly man passes by like an image; even so, he is disquieted in vain. He stores up, and he knows not for whom he will gather these things.
8 I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.	8 And now, what is it that awaits me? Is it not the Lord? And my substance is with you.
9 Lord, all my longing is known to thee, my sighing is not hidden from thee.	9 Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as reproach to the foolish.
10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.	10 I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.
11 My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.	11 Remove your scourges from me.
12 Those who seek my life lay their snares, those who seek my hurt speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all the day long.	12 I fall short at corrections from the strength of your hand. For you have chastised man for iniquity. And you have made his soul shrink away like a spider. Nevertheless, it is in vain that any man be disquieted.
13 But I am like a deaf man, I do not hear, like a dumb man who does not open his mouth.	13 O Lord, heed my prayer and my supplication. Pay attention to my tears. Do not be silent. For I am a newcomer with you, and a sojourner, just as all my fathers were.
14 Yea, I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.	14 Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.
15 But for thee, O LORD, do I wait; it is thou, O LORD my God, who wilt answer.
16 For I pray, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"
17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
18 I confess my iniquity, I am sorry for my sin.
19 Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
20 Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!