Psalmorum 39
1 in finem Idithun canticum David dixi custodiam vias meas ut non delinquam in lingua mea posui ori meo custodiam cum consisteret peccator adversum me
TO THE OVERSEER. FOR JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have said, “I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep a curb for my mouth, While the wicked [is] before me.”
2 obmutui et humiliatus sum et silui a bonis et dolor meus renovatus est
I was mute [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3 concaluit cor meum intra me et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis
My heart [is] hot within me, In my meditating the fire burns, I have spoken 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
“Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, And the measure of my days—what it [is],” I know how frail I [am].
5 ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te verumtamen universa vanitas omnis homo vivens diapsalma
Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, And my age [is] as nothing before You, Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. (Selah)
6 verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo sed et frustra conturbatur thesaurizat et ignorat cui congregabit ea
Only, each habitually walks in an image, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.
7 et nunc quae est expectatio mea nonne Dominus et substantia mea apud te est
And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.
8 ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me obprobrium insipienti dedisti me
Deliver me from all my transgressions, Do not make me a reproach of the fool.
9 obmutui et non aperui os meum quoniam tu fecisti
I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, Because You have done [it].
10 amove a me plagas tuas
Turn aside Your stroke from off me, From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.
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 diapsalma
With reproofs against iniquity, You have corrected man, And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, Only, every man [is] vanity. (Selah)
12 exaudi orationem meam Domine et deprecationem meam auribus percipe lacrimas meas ne sileas quoniam advena sum apud te et peregrinus sicut omnes patres mei
Hear my prayer, O YHWH, And give ear [to] my cry, Do not be silent to my tear, For I [am] a sojourner with You, A settler like all my fathers.
13 remitte mihi ut refrigerer priusquam abeam et amplius non ero
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
