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# Psalm 37 (38)

Psalm 37 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 38 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Domine, ne in furore. A prayer of a penitent for the remission of his sins. The third penitential psalm.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 37 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Psalm of David, in commemoration of the Sabbath.
2. O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your wrath.
3. For your arrows have been driven into me, and your hand has been confirmed over 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.
5. For my iniquities have walked over my head, and they have been like a heavy burden weighing upon me.
6. My sores have putrefied and been corrupted before the face 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.
8. For my loins have been filled with illusions, and there is no health in my flesh.
9. I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.
10. O Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning before you has not been hidden.
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.
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.
13. And those who sought evil accusations against me were speaking emptiness. And they practiced deceitfulness all day long.
14. But, like someone deaf, I did not hear. And I was like someone mute, not opening his mouth.
15. And I became like a man who does not hear, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
16. For in you, Lord, I have hoped. You will listen to me, O 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.”
18. For I have been prepared for scourges, and my sorrow is ever before me.
19. For I will announce my iniquity, and I will think about my sin.
20. But my enemies live, and they have been stronger than me. And those who have wrongfully hated me have been multiplied.
21. Those who render evil for good have dragged me down, because I followed goodness.
22. Do not forsake me, O Lord my God. Do not depart from me.
23. Be attentive to my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.

## Psalm 37 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Psalmus David, in rememorationem de sabbato.
2. Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, neque in ira tua corripias me:
3. quoniam sagittæ tuæ infixæ sunt mihi, et confirmasti super me manum tuam.
4. Non est sanitas in carne mea, a facie iræ tuæ; non est pax ossibus meis, a facie peccatorum meorum:
5. quoniam iniquitates meæ supergressæ sunt caput meum, et sicut onus grave gravatæ sunt super me.
6. Putruerunt et corruptæ sunt cicatrices meæ, a facie insipientiæ meæ.
7. Miser factus sum et curvatus sum usque in finem; tota die contristatus ingrediebar.
8. Quoniam lumbi mei impleti sunt illusionibus, et non est sanitas in carne mea.
9. Afflictus sum, et humiliatus sum nimis; rugiebam a gemitu cordis mei.
10. Domine, ante te omne desiderium meum, et gemitus meus a te non est absconditus.
11. Cor meum conturbatum est; dereliquit me virtus mea, et lumen oculorum meorum, et ipsum non est mecum.
12. Amici mei et proximi mei adversum me appropinquaverunt, et steterunt; et qui juxta me erant, de longe steterunt: et vim faciebant qui quærebant animam meam.
13. Et qui inquirebant mala mihi, locuti sunt vanitates, et dolos tota die meditabantur.
14. Ego autem, tamquam surdus, non audiebam; et sicut mutus non aperiens os suum.
15. Et factus sum sicut homo non audiens, et non habens in ore suo redargutiones.
16. Quoniam in te, Domine, speravi; tu exaudies me, Domine Deus meus.
17. Quia dixi: Nequando supergaudeant mihi inimici mei; et dum commoventur pedes mei, super me magna locuti sunt.
18. Quoniam ego in flagella paratus sum, et dolor meus in conspectu meo semper.
19. Quoniam iniquitatem meam annuntiabo, et cogitabo pro peccato meo.
20. Inimici autem mei vivunt, et confirmati sunt super me: et multiplicati sunt qui oderunt me inique.
21. Qui retribuunt mala pro bonis detrahebant mihi, quoniam sequebar bonitatem.
22. Ne derelinquas me, Domine Deus meus; ne discesseris a me.
23. Intende in adjutorium meum, Domine Deus salutis meæ.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1502: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: Viz., of our miseries and sins: and to be sung on the sabbath day.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).