Psalms 39
1 To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. — A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked [is] before me.'
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3 My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
4 Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
'Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days — what it [is],' I know how frail I [am].
5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. (Selah)
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. (Selah)
6 Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
7 And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.
And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope — it [is] of Thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.
From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done [it].
I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou — Thou hast done [it].
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. (Selah)
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. (Selah)
12 Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And [to] my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I [am] with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
13 Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
