Psalms 39
1 To the excellent musician Ieduthun. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.
For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.
2 I was dumme and spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.
I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed.
3 Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,
My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my (meditation) I spoke with my tongue,
4 Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.
O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.
5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. (Selah)
Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before thee: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. (Pause)
6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.
7 And now Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.
And now what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with thee. (Pause)
8 Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.
9 I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.
I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.
10 Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.
Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. (Selah)
Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. (Pause)
12 Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.
O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers [were].
13 Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.
Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.
