Psalms 39
1 For the Leader, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.'
In finem, ipsi Idithun, Canticum David. Dixi: Custodiam vias meas: ut non delinquam in lingua mea. Posui ori meo custodiam, cum consisteret peccator adversum me.
2 I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort; and my pain was held in check.
Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis: et dolor meus renovatus est.
3 My heart waxed hot within me; while I was musing, the fire kindled; then spoke I with my tongue:
Concaluit cor meum intra me: et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.
4 'LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how short-lived I am.
Locutus sum in lingua mea: Notum fac mihi Domine finem meum. Et numerum dierum meorum quis est: ut sciam quid desit mihi.
5 Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. (Selah)
Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos: et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.
6 Surely man walketh as a mere semblance; surely for vanity they are in turmoil; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo: sed et frustra conturbatur. Thesaurizat: et ignorat cui congregabit ea.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope, it is in Thee.
Et nunc quæ est expectatio mea? nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the base.
Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me: opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.
9 I am dumb, I open not my mouth; because Thou hast done it.
Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti:
10 Remove Thy stroke from off me; I am consumed by the blow of Thy hand.
amove a me plagas tuas.
11 With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity. (Selah)
A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus: propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam eius: verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; keep not silence at my tears; for I am a stranger with Thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Exaudi orationem meam Domine, et deprecationem meam: auribus percipe lacrimas meas. Ne sileas: quoniam advena ego sum apud te, et peregrinus, sicut omnes patres mei.
13 Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'
Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam, et amplius non ero.
