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Psalm 32:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 32:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 Blessed is the one to whom the Lord charges no guilt
and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 As long as I remained silent,[a]
my body wasted away
as the result of my groaning throughout the day.
4 For day and night
your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength withered steadily
as though consumed by the summer heat.[b] Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 32:3 I remained silent: did not confess the sin before God. Body: literally, “bones.”
- Psalm 32:4 According to St. Augustine, even before penitents acknowledge their sin, God hears the cry of their heart and pardons it because of their true contrition (see 2 Sam 12:13).
