Catholic Public Domain Version
"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. "
— Psalms 38:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.”
“But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. ”
“But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.”
“But I am like a deaf man– I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak.”
“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.”
“But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.”
“But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.”
I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.
Remove your scourges from me.
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.
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.
Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.