Psalms 39

1 To the choirmaster (for Jeduthun *Q(K)*) a psalm of David. I said I will guard ways my from sinning with tongue my I will keep to mouth my a muzzle while still [the] wicked [is] to before me.

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

2 I was dumb silence I was silent from good and pain my it was stirred up.

I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.

3 It became hot heart my - in inner being my in sighing my it burned fire I spoke with tongue my.

My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

4 Make known to me O Yahweh - end my and [the] measure of days my what? [is] it let me know how! fleeting [am] I.

“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

5 Here! handbreadths - you have made days my and lifespan my [is] like nothing before you [is] only all vanity all humankind [which] stands (Selah)

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath.

6 Only an image - he goes about a person only vanity people are in turmoil! he heaps up and not he knows who? [will be] gathering them.

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

7 And now what? do I wait for O Lord hope my [is] to you it.

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

8 From all transgressions my deliver me a reproach of [the] foolish may not you make me.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

9 I am dumb not I open mouth my for you you have acted.

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

10 Remove from on me plague your from [the] hostility of hand your I I have come to an end.

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

11 With rebukes on iniquity - you have disciplined a person and you have melted like moth desired [thing] his [is] only vanity all humankind (Selah)

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor.

12 Hear! prayer my - O Yahweh and cry for help my - give ear to! to tear[s] my may not you be silent for [am] a sojourner I with you a resident alien like all ancestors my.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

13 Smear from me so let me be cheerful before I will go and there not [will be] me.

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”