Psalmorum 39
1 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.
Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.
2 Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis: et dolor meus renovatus est.
I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.
3 Concaluit cor meum intra me: et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.
My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.
4 Locutus sum in lingua mea: Notum fac mihi Domine finem meum. Et numerum dierum meorum quis est: ut sciam quid desit mihi.
I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.
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 measurable: and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.
6 Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo: sed et frustra conturbatur. Thesaurizat: et ignorat cui congregabit ea.
Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.
7 Et nunc quæ est expectatio mea? nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.
And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.
8 Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me: opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.
Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
9 Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti:
I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
10 amove a me plagas tuas.
Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
11 A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus: propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam eius: verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.
Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.
12 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.
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
13 Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam, et amplius non ero.
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
