Psalms 38

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David.	1 [Psalm Of David In commemoration] Yahweh, do not correct me in anger, do not discipline me inwrath.
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.	2 For your arrows have pierced deep into me, your hand has pressed down upon me.
3 I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.	3 Your indignation has left no part of me unscathed, my sin has left no health in my bones.
4 My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up.	4 My sins stand higher than my head, they weigh on me as an unbearable weight.
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.”	5 I have stinking, festering wounds, thanks to my fol y.
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.	6 I am twisted and bent double, I spend my days in gloom.
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.	7 My loins burn with fever, no part of me is unscathed.
8 And now, what is it that awaits me? Is it not the Lord? And my substance is with you.	8 Numbed and utterly crushed I groan in distress of heart.
9 Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as reproach to the foolish.	9 Lord, all my longing is known to you, my sighing no secret from you,
10 I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.	10 my heart is throbbing, my strength has failed, the light has gone out of my eyes.
11 Remove your scourges from me.	11 Friends and companions shun my disease, even the dearest of them keep their distance.
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.	12 Those with designs on my life lay snares, those who wish me ill speak of violence and hatchtreachery all day long.
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.	13 But I hear nothing, as though I were deaf, as though dumb, saying not a word.
14 Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.	14 I am like the one who, hearing nothing, has no sharp answer to make.
	15 For in you, Yahweh, I put my hope, you, Lord my God, wil give answer.
	16 I said, 'Never let them gloat over me, do not let them take advantage of me if my foot slips.'
	17 There is no escape for me from fal ing, no relief from my misery.
	18 But I make no secret of my guilt, I am anxious at the thought of my sin.
	19 There is no numbering those who oppose me without cause, no counting those who hate meunprovoked,
	20 repaying me evil for good, slandering me for trying to do them good.
	21 Yahweh, do not desert me, my God, do not stand aloof from me.
	22 Come quickly to my help, Lord, my Saviour!