Catholic Public Domain Version
"I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it. "
— Psalms 39:10, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.”
“Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. ”
“Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.”
“Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!”
“I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.”
“No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.”
“Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.”
Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have perfected ears for me. Holocaust and sin offering, you did not require.
Then I said, “Behold, I draw near.” At the head of the book, it has been written of me:
that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.
I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it.
I have not concealed your justice within my heart. I have spoken your truth and your salvation. I have not concealed your mercy and your truth from a great assembly.
O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.
For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.