Psalms 39

1 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.”

to/for to conduct (to/for Jeduthun *Q(K)*) melody to/for David to say to keep: guard way: conduct my from to sin in/on/with tongue my to keep: guard to/for lip my muzzle in/on/with still wicked to/for before me

2 I was mute [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

be dumb silence be silent from good and pain my to trouble

3 My heart [is] hot within me, In my meditating the fire burns, I have spoken with my tongue.

to warm heart my in/on/with entrails: among my in/on/with meditation my to burn: burn fire to speak: speak in/on/with tongue my

4 “Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, And the measure of my days—what it [is],” I know how frail I [am].

to know me LORD end my and measure day my what? he/she/it to know what? rejected/fleeting I

5 Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, And my age [is] as nothing before You, Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. (Selah)

behold handbreadth to give: make day my and lifetime/world my like/as nothing before you surely all vanity all man to stand (Selah)

6 Only, each habitually walks in an image, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.

surely in/on/with image to go: walk man surely vanity to roar [emph?] to heap and not to know who? to gather them

7 And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.

and now what? to await Lord hope my to/for you he/she/it

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions, Do not make me a reproach of the fool.

from all transgression my to rescue me reproach foolish not to set: make me

9 I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, Because You have done [it].

be dumb not to open lip my for you(m. s.) to make: do

10 Turn aside Your stroke from off me, From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.

to turn aside: remove from upon me plague your from strife hand your I to end: expend

11 With reproofs against iniquity, You have corrected man, And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, Only, every man [is] vanity. (Selah)

in/on/with argument upon iniquity: crime to discipline man and to liquefy like/as moth to desire his surely vanity all man (Selah)

12 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.

to hear: hear [emph?] prayer my LORD and cry my to listen [emph?] to(wards) tears my not be quiet for sojourner I with you sojourner like/as all father my

13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

to gaze from me and be cheerful in/on/with before to go: went and nothing I