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.
For victorie, to Iditum, the song of Dauid. I seide, Y schal kepe my weies; that Y trespasse not in my tunge. I settide kepyng to my mouth; whanne a synnere stood ayens me.
2 Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis; et dolor meus renovatus est.
I was doumb, and was mekid ful gretli, and was stille fro goodis; and my sorewe was renulid.
3 Concaluit cor meum intra me; et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.
Myn herte was hoot with ynne me; and fier schal brenne out in my thenkyng.
4 Locutus sum in lingua mea: Notum fac mihi, Domine, finem meum, et numerum dierum meorum quis est, ut sciam quid desit mihi.
I spak in my tunge; Lord, make thou myn eende knowun to me. And the noumbre of my daies what it is; that Y wite, what failith to me.
5 Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos, et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.
Lo! thou hast set my daies mesurable; and my substaunce is as nouyt bifor thee. Netheles al vanytee; ech man lyuynge.
6 Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo; sed et frustra conturbatur: thesaurizat, et ignorat cui congregabit ea.
Netheles a man passith in ymage; but also he is disturblid veynli. He tresorith; and he noot, to whom he `schal gadere tho thingis.
7 Et nunc quæ est exspectatio mea: nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.
And now which is myn abiding? whether not the Lord? and my substaunce is at thee.
8 Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me: opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.
Delyuere thou me fro alle my wickidnessis; thou hast youe me schenschip to the vnkunnynge.
9 Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti;
I was doumbe, and openyde not my mouth; for thou hast maad,
10 amove a me plagas tuas.
remoue thou thi woundis fro me.
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.
Fro the strengthe of thin hond Y failide in blamyngis; for wickidnesse thou hast chastisid man. And thou madist his lijf to faile as an yreyne; netheles ech man is disturblid in veyn.
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.
Lord, here thou my preier and my bisechyng; perseyue thou with eeris my teeris.
13 Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam et amplius non ero.
Be thou not stille, for Y am a comelyng at thee; and a pilgrime, as alle my fadris. Foryyue thou to me, that Y be refreischid, bifor that Y go; and Y schal no more be.
