| Vers | English: Douay-Rheims | English: King James Version |
| 1 | Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. | O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. |
| 2 | I said: I will take heed to my ways : that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me. | For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. |
| 3 | I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things : and my sorrow was renewed. | There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. |
| 4 | My heart grew hot within me : and in my meditation a fire shall flame out. | For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. |
| 5 | I spoke with my tongue : O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days : that I may know what is wanting to me. | My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. |
| 6 | Behold thou hast made my days measurable : and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity : every man living. | I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. |
| 7 | Surely man passeth as an image : yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up : and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things. | For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. |
| 8 | And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee. | I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. |
| 9 | Deliver thou me from all my iniquities : thou hast made me a reproach to the fool. | Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. |
| 10 | I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it. | My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. |
| 11 | Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes: | My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. |
| 12 | thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider : surely in vain is any man disquieted. | They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. |
| 13 | Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication : give ear to my tears. Be not silent : for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were. | But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. |
| 14 | O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more. | Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. |
| 15 | For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. | |
| 16 | For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. | |
| 17 | For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. | |
| 18 | For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. | |
| 19 | But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. | |
| 20 | They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. | |
| 21 | Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. | |
| 22 | Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. |