Psalms 39
1 [For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.] I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
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.
2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis; et dolor meus renovatus est.
3 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
Concaluit cor meum intra me; et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.
4 "Jehovah, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
Locutus sum in lingua mea: Notum fac mihi, Domine, finem meum, et numerum dierum meorum quis est, ut sciam quid desit mihi.
5 Look, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." (Selah)
Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos, et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.
6 "Surely a person goes about like a shadow. Surely he heaps up vain things of wealth, and doesn't know who shall gather them.
Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo; sed et frustra conturbatur: thesaurizat, et ignorat cui congregabit ea.
7 Now, Jehovah, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Et nunc quæ est exspectatio mea: nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the taunt of fools.
Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me: opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.
9 I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it.
Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti;
10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
amove a me plagas tuas.
11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." (Selah)
A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus: propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus: verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.
12 "Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
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.
13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more."
Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam et amplius non ero.]
