Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Psalms 34:8-20 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

8. Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.

9. But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in his salvation.

10. All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.

11. Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

12. They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

13. But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

14. As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

15. But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

16. They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

17. Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? rescue thou soul from their malice: my only one from the lions.

18. I will give thanks to thee in a great church; I will praise thee in a strong people.

19. Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.

20. For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile.