Psalms 39
1 To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. — A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked [is] before me.'
To the excellent musician Ieduthun. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.
2 I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
I was dumme and spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.
3 Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,
4 'Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days — what it [is],' I know how frail I [am].
Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.
5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. (Selah)
Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. (Selah)
6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
7 And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope — it [is] of Thee.
And now Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.
8 From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.
9 I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou — Thou hast done [it].
I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.
10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.
11 With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. (Selah)
When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. (Selah)
12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And [to] my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I [am] with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.
13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.
