Psalms 39
1 To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
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 dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
I was mute [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] I spoke with my tongue.
My heart [is] hot within me, In my meditating the fire burns, I have spoken with my tongue.
4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it [is]; [that] I may know how frail I [am].
“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, thou hast made my days [as] a hand-breadth; and my age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. (Selah)
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 Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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, LORD, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Deliver me from all my transgressions, Do not make me a reproach of the fool.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, Because You have done [it].
10 Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Turn aside Your stroke from off me, From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. (Selah)
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 LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].
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 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
