Psalmorum 39

1 Psalm. Canticum David, in finem, pro Idithum. Dixi: Custodiam vias meas: ut non delinquam in lingua mea. Posui ori meo custodiam, cum consisteret peccator adversum me.

For the Chief Musician, for 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.

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] spake 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.

Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me 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] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. (Selah)

6 Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo: sed et frustra conturbatur. Thesaurizat: et ignorat cui congregabit ea.

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.

7 Et nunc quae est expectatio mea? nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.

And now, Lord, what wait I for? 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; Because thou didst 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 tuae 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 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 lacrymas meas. Ne sileas: quoniam advena ego sum apud te, et peregrinus, sicut omnes patres mei.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13 Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam, et amplius non ero.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.