The Latin Vulgate VUL
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 nunc autem derident me iuniores tempore quorum non dignabar patres ponere cum canibus gregis mei
1
"But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
2 quorum virtus manuum erat mihi pro nihilo et vita ipsa putabantur indigni
2
What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?
3 egestate et fame steriles qui rodebant in solitudine squalentes calamitate et miseria
3
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;
4 et mandebant herbas et arborum cortices et radix iuniperorum erat cibus eorum
4
they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.
5 qui de convallibus ista rapientes cum singula repperissent ad ea cum clamore currebant
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They are driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.
6 in desertis habitabant torrentium et in cavernis terrae vel super glaream
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In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7 qui inter huiuscemodi laetabantur et esse sub sentibus delicias conputabant
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Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.
8 filii stultorum et ignobilium et in terra penitus non parentes
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A senseless, a disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
9 nunc in eorum canticum versus sum et factus sum eis proverbium
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"And now I have become their song, I am a byword to them.
10 abominantur me et longe fugiunt a me et faciem meam conspuere non verentur
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They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
11 faretram enim suam aperuit et adflixit me et frenum posuit in os meum
11
Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
12 ad dexteram orientis calamitatis meae ilico surrexerunt pedes meos subverterunt et oppresserunt quasi fluctibus semitis suis
12
On my right hand the rabble rise, they drive me forth, they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13 dissipaverunt itinera mea insidiati sunt mihi et praevaluerunt et non fuit qui ferret auxilium
13
They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.
14 quasi rupto muro et aperta ianua inruerunt super me et ad meas miserias devoluti sunt
14
As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
15 redactus sum in nihili abstulisti quasi ventus desiderium meum et velut nubes pertransiit salus mea
15
Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
16 nunc autem in memet ipso marcescit anima mea et possident me dies adflictionis
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"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
17 nocte os meum perforatur doloribus et qui me comedunt non dormiunt
17
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
18 in multitudine eorum consumitur vestimentum meum et quasi capitio tunicae sic cinxerunt me
18
With violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
19 conparatus sum luto et adsimilatus favillae et cineri
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God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20 clamo ad te et non exaudis me sto et non respicis me
20
I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me.
21 mutatus es mihi in crudelem et in duritia manus tuae adversaris mihi
21
Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me.
22 elevasti me et quasi super ventum ponens elisisti me valide
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Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.
23 scio quia morti tradas me ubi constituta domus est omni viventi
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Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24 verumtamen non ad consumptionem eorum emittis manum tuam et si corruerint ipse salvabis
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"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?
25 flebam quondam super eum qui adflictus erat et conpatiebatur anima mea pauperi
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Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26 expectabam bona et venerunt mihi mala praestolabar lucem et eruperunt tenebrae
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But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
27 interiora mea efferbuerunt absque ulla requie praevenerunt me dies adflictionis
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My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me.
28 maerens incedebam sine furore consurgens in turba clamavi
28
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
29 frater fui draconum et socius strutionum
29
I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
30 cutis mea denigrata est super me et ossa mea aruerunt prae caumate
30
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
31 versa est in luctum cithara mea et organum meum in vocem flentium
31
My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.