Psalms 39
1 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.'
To the chief Musician, [even] to 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 I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [ then] spake I with my tongue,
4 'Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days — what it [is],' I know how frail I [am].
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. (Selah)
Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. (Selah)
6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope — it [is] of Thee.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
8 From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou — Thou hast done [it].
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11 With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. (Selah)
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 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.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].
13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
