Psalms 39
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked man is before me.
Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. 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.
2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred.
I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.
3 My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.
4 Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.
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.
5 Behold, thou have made my days as handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. (Selah)
Behold thou hast made my days measurable: and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.
6 Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.
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.
7 And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in thee.
And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
9 I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it.
I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me. I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
11 When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. (Selah)
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.
12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
