Catholic Public Domain Version
"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. "
— Psalms 39:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. ”
“Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. ”
“Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.”
“Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.”
“For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.”
“Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.”
“O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. ”
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.
Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.
Let them together be confounded and awed, who seek after my soul to steal it away. Let them be turned back and be in awe, who wish evils upon me.
Let them bear their confusion all at once, who say to me, “Well, well.”