Vulgata Clementina - Psalmi, 38

[1] Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.

[1] In finem, ipsi Idithun. Canticum David.

[2] I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

[2] Dixi : Custodiam vias meas ; locutus sum in lingua mea : posui ori meo custodiam cum consisteret peccator adversum me.

[3] I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.

[3] Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis ; et dolor meus renovatus est.

[4] My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

[4] Concaluit cor meum intra me ; et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.

[5] I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

[5] Locutus sum in lingua mea : Notum fac mihi, Domine, finem meum, et numerum dierum meorum quis est, ut sciam quid desit mihi.

[6] Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

[6] Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos, et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.

[7] Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

[7] Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo ; sed et frustra conturbatur : thesaurizat, et ignorat cui congregabit ea.

[8] And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.

[8] Et nunc quæ est exspectatio mea : nonne Dominus ? Et substantia mea apud te est.

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

[9] Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me : opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.

[10] I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

[10] Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti ;

[11] Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

[11] amove a me plagas tuas.

[12] 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.

[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.

[13] Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

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

[14] Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam et amplius non ero.