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, to Jeduthun. — A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, 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 kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3 concaluit cor meum intra me et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis
Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, 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 Jehovah, mine 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
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. (Selah)
6 verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo sed et frustra conturbatur thesaurizat et ignorat cui congregabit ea
Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth 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 Thee.
8 ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me obprobrium insipienti dedisti me
From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
9 obmutui et non aperui os meum quoniam tu fecisti
I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou — Thou hast done [it].
10 amove a me plagas tuas
Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy 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, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. (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 Jehovah, And [to] my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I [am] with Thee, 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!
