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.
TO THE OVERSEER. FOR JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have said, “I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep a curb for my mouth, While the wicked [is] before me.”
2 I was dumme and spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.
I was mute [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3 Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,
My heart [is] hot within me, In my meditating the fire burns, I have spoken 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.
“Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, And the measure of my days—what it [is],” I know how frail I [am].
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, You have made my days handbreadths, And my age [is] as nothing before You, Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. (Selah)
6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
Only, each habitually walks in an image, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.
7 And now Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.
And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.
8 Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.
Deliver me from all my transgressions, Do not make me a reproach of the fool.
9 I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.
I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, Because You have done [it].
10 Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.
Turn aside Your stroke from off me, From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.
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)
With reproofs against iniquity, You have corrected man, And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, Only, every man [is] vanity. (Selah)
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.
Hear my prayer, O YHWH, And give ear [to] my cry, Do not be silent to my tear, For I [am] a sojourner with You, A settler like all my fathers.
13 Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
