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.
To the chief Musician, 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 muzzle, 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 from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 Concaluit cor meum intra me: et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.
My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke 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.
Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall 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, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. (Selah)
6 Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo: sed et frustra conturbatur. Thesaurizat: et ignorat cui congregabit ea.
Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 Et nunc quæ est expectatio mea? nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.
And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.
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; for thou hast done [it].
10 amove a me plagas tuas.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
11 A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus: propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam eius: verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.
When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest 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, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
13 Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam, et amplius non ero.
Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
