Catholic Public Domain Version

Psalm 38:9-14 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

9. Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as reproach to the foolish.

10. I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.

11. Remove your scourges from me.

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.

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.

14. Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.