Psalmorum 39
1 In finem, ipsi Idithun. Canticum David. [Dixi: Custodiam vias meas: ut non delinquam in lingua mea. Posui ori meo custodiam, cum consisteret peccator adversum me.
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.
2 Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis; et dolor meus renovatus est.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 Concaluit cor meum intra me; et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,
4 Locutus sum in lingua mea: Notum fac mihi, Domine, finem meum, et numerum dierum meorum quis est, ut sciam quid desit mihi.
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
5 Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos, et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.
Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. (Selah)
6 Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo; sed et frustra conturbatur: thesaurizat, et ignorat cui congregabit ea.
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
7 Et nunc quæ est exspectatio mea: nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you.
8 Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me: opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti;
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
10 amove a me plagas tuas.
Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
11 A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus: propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus: verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. (Selah)
12 Exaudi orationem meam, Domine, et deprecationem meam; auribus percipe lacrimas meas. Ne sileas, quoniam advena ego sum apud te, et peregrinus sicut omnes patres mei.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13 Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam et amplius non ero.]
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
