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Psalms 37
Septuagint (LXX2012) 37 compared with World English Bible 38
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1(38) A Psalm of Davidfor remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger.
1A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2For your weapons are fixed in me, and you have pressed your hand heavily upon me.
2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
3For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.
3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
4For my transgressions have gone over my head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.
4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
6I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day .
6I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
7For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.
7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
8I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.
8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
9But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.
9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
10My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of my eyes is not with me.
10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
11My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
12While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day .
12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.
13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
14And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth .
14Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15For I hoped in you, O Lord: you will hear, O Lord my God.
15For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.
16For I said, Lest my enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me .
16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
17For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.
17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
18For I will declare my iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.
18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
19But my enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.
19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
20They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.
20They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
21Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.
21Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
22Draw near to my help , O Lord of my salvation.
22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.