Psalmi 38

VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 In finem, ipsi Idithun. Canticum David.	1 [Psalm Of David In commemoration] Yahweh, do not correct me in anger, do not discipline me inwrath.
2 Dixi : Custodiam vias meas : ut non delinquam in lingua mea. Posui ori meo custodiam, cum consisteret peccator adversum me.	2 For your arrows have pierced deep into me, your hand has pressed down upon me.
3 Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis ; et dolor meus renovatus est.	3 Your indignation has left no part of me unscathed, my sin has left no health in my bones.
4 Concaluit cor meum intra me ; et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.	4 My sins stand higher than my head, they weigh on me as an unbearable weight.
5 Locutus sum in lingua mea : Notum fac mihi, Domine, finem meum, et numerum dierum meorum quis est, ut sciam quid desit mihi.	5 I have stinking, festering wounds, thanks to my fol y.
6 Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos, et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.	6 I am twisted and bent double, I spend my days in gloom.
7 Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo ; sed et frustra conturbatur : thesaurizat, et ignorat cui congregabit ea.	7 My loins burn with fever, no part of me is unscathed.
8 Et nunc quæ est exspectatio mea : nonne Dominus ? et substantia mea apud te est.	8 Numbed and utterly crushed I groan in distress of heart.
9 Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me : opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.	9 Lord, all my longing is known to you, my sighing no secret from you,
10 Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti ;	10 my heart is throbbing, my strength has failed, the light has gone out of my eyes.
11 amove a me plagas tuas.	11 Friends and companions shun my disease, even the dearest of them keep their distance.
12 A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus : propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus : verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.	12 Those with designs on my life lay snares, those who wish me ill speak of violence and hatchtreachery all day long.
13 Exaudi orationem meam, Domine, et deprecationem meam ; auribus percipe lacrimas meas. Ne sileas, quoniam advena ego sum apud te, et peregrinus sicut omnes patres mei.	13 But I hear nothing, as though I were deaf, as though dumb, saying not a word.
14 Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam et amplius non ero.	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!