1 A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory. 2 \38:1\O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.3 \38:2\For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.4 \38:3\My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.5 \38:4\For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.6 \38:5\My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.7 \38:6\I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.8 \38:7\For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.9 \38:8\I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.10 \38:9\Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.11 \38:10\My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.12 \38:11\My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.13 \38:12\Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.14 \38:13\But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.15 \38:14\So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.16 \38:15\In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.17 \38:16\I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.18 \38:17\My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.19 \38:18\I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.20 \38:19\But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.21 \38:20\They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.22 \38:21\Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.23 \38:22\Come quickly to give me help, O Lord, my salvation.

1 In finem, ipsi Idithun. Canticum David. 2 [Dixi : Custodiam vias meas :ut non delinquam in lingua mea.Posui ori meo custodiam,cum consisteret peccator adversum me.3 Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis ;et dolor meus renovatus est.4 Concaluit cor meum intra me ;et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.5 Locutus sum in lingua mea :Notum fac mihi, Domine, finem meum,et numerum dierum meorum quis est,ut sciam quid desit mihi.6 Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos,et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te.Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.7 Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo ;sed et frustra conturbatur :thesaurizat, et ignorat cui congregabit ea.8 Et nunc qu est exspectatio mea : nonne Dominus ?et substantia mea apud te est.9 Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me :opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.10 Obmutui, et non aperui os meum,quoniam tu fecisti ;11 amove a me plagas tuas.12 A fortitudine manus tu ego defeci in increpationibus :propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem.Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus :verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.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.14 Remitte mihi, ut refrigererpriusquam abeam et amplius non ero.]