Psalms 39
1 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.
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 dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed.
I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.
3 My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my (meditation) I spoke with my tongue,
My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.
4 O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.
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, you have made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before you: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. (Pause)
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 man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he 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 what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with you. (Pause)
And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.
Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
9 I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me.
I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
10 Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand.
Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
11 You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and you make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. (Pause)
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 O Lord, listen 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].
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 Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
