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Psalm 37 (38) Catholic Public Domain Version

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 38 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (4)

Psalm 37 in CPDV = Psalm 38 in WEB.

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WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Psalm of David, in commemoration of the Sabbath.
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2 O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your wrath.
38:1 A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
3 For your arrows have been driven into me, and your hand has been confirmed over me.
38:2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
4 There is no health in my flesh before the face of your wrath. There is no peace for my bones before the face of my sins.
38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
5 For my iniquities have walked over my head, and they have been like a heavy burden weighing upon me.
38:4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
6 My sores have putrefied and been corrupted before the face of my foolishness.
38:5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
7 I have become miserable, and I have been bent down, even to the end. I have walked with contrition all day long.
38:6 I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
8 For my loins have been filled with illusions, and there is no health in my flesh.
38:7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
9 I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.
38:8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
10 O Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning before you has not been hidden.
38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
11 My heart has been disturbed. My strength has abandoned me, and the light of my eyes has abandoned me, and it is not with me.
38:10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
12 My friends and my neighbors have drawn near and stood against me. And those who were next to me stood far apart. And those who sought my soul used violence.
38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
13 And those who sought evil accusations against me were speaking emptiness. And they practiced deceitfulness all day long.
38:12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
14 But, like someone deaf, I did not hear. And I was like someone mute, not opening his mouth.
38:13 But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
15 And I became like a man who does not hear, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
38:14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
16 For in you, Lord, I have hoped. You will listen to me, O Lord my God.
38:15 For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.
17 For I said, “Lest at any time, my enemies might rejoice over me,” and, “While my feet are being shaken, they have spoken great things against me.”
38:16 For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
18 For I have been prepared for scourges, and my sorrow is ever before me.
38:17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
19 For I will announce my iniquity, and I will think about my sin.
38:18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
20 But my enemies live, and they have been stronger than me. And those who have wrongfully hated me have been multiplied.
38:19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
21 Those who render evil for good have dragged me down, because I followed goodness.
38:20 They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
22 Do not forsake me, O Lord my God. Do not depart from me.
38:21 Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
23 Be attentive to my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.
38:22 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
Cross references (23)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.

  1. 1 Isaiah 54:8; Hebrews 12:5–11; Psalm 6:1; Psalm 70:1; Jeremiah 30:11
  2. 2 Isaiah 54:8; Hebrews 12:5–11; Psalm 6:1; Psalm 70:1; Jeremiah 30:11
  3. 3 Job 6:4; Psalm 32:4; 1 Samuel 5:6; Deuteronomy 2:15; Lamentations 3:12
  4. 4 Psalm 6:2; Psalm 51:8; Psalm 31:9–10; Isaiah 1:5–6; Lamentations 3:40–42
  5. 5 Psalm 40:12; Ezra 9:6; Matthew 11:28; Lamentations 1:14; 1 Peter 2:24
  6. 6 Isaiah 1:5–6; Psalm 69:5; Jeremiah 8:22; Psalm 32:3; Psalm 38:7
  7. 7 Job 30:28; Psalm 35:14; Psalm 42:9; Psalm 31:10; Psalm 42:5
  8. 8 Psalm 102:3; 2 Chronicles 21:18–19; Acts 12:23; Psalm 41:8; Job 30:18
  9. 9 Job 3:24; Psalm 32:3; Job 30:28; Isaiah 59:11; Psalm 22:1–2
  10. 10 Psalm 10:17; Psalm 6:6; 2 Corinthians 5:2; Romans 8:26–27; John 1:48
  11. 11 Psalm 6:7; Psalm 88:9; Psalm 69:3; Psalm 119:123; Lamentations 5:16–17
  12. 12 Psalm 31:11; Luke 23:49; Job 19:13–17; John 16:32; Psalm 88:18
  13. 13 Psalm 35:20; 2 Samuel 17:1–3; Psalm 140:5; Psalm 54:3; Psalm 141:9
  14. 14 Isaiah 53:7; Psalm 39:9; Psalm 39:2; 1 Peter 2:23; 2 Samuel 16:10–12
  15. 15 Amos 5:13; John 8:6; Mark 15:3–5; Micah 7:5
  16. 16 Psalm 39:7; Psalm 17:6; Psalm 138:3; Psalm 123:1–3
  17. 17 Psalm 94:18; Deuteronomy 32:35; Psalm 35:24–26; Psalm 13:3–4
  18. 18 Psalm 35:15; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 38:6; Micah 4:6–7; Psalm 77:2–3
  19. 19 Psalm 32:5; Proverbs 28:13; Job 33:27; Psalm 51:3; 2 Corinthians 7:7–11
  20. 20 John 15:18–25; Psalm 35:19; Matthew 10:22; Psalm 69:4; Psalm 56:1–2
  21. 21 Psalm 35:12; Jeremiah 18:20; 1 John 3:12; John 10:32; 1 Peter 4:14–16
  22. 22 Psalm 22:19; Psalm 22:24; Psalm 22:11; Psalm 35:21–22; Psalm 22:1
  23. 23 Psalm 40:13; Psalm 27:1; Isaiah 12:2; Psalm 141:1; Psalm 71:12

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 38.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XXXVII)

    With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 38:14 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIII)

    The Psalmist says, And I became as a man that heareth not; and in whose mouth are no reproofs; and again, But I was as a deaf man and heard not; and as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)