Side by side
Psalms 38
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
1 O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.
1Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.
1 Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
2I 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 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
3My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
3I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.
4For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
4My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
5I 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 My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
6Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.
6 I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
7For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
7Surely 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 For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
8And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.
8 I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart.
9Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
9Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.
10My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
10I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
10 My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
11My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
11Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
11 My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12Those 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.
12Thou 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 And they that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
13But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.
13Hear 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 But I, as a deaf [man], hear not; and am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.
14O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
14 Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.
15(not in this translation)
15 For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: thou wilt answer, O Lord myGod.
16I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.
16(not in this translation)
16 For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified [themselves] against me.
17My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
17(not in this translation)
17 For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.
18I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.
18(not in this translation)
18 For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.
19But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.
19(not in this translation)
19 But mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied:
20They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.
20(not in this translation)
20 And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.