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.”

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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