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.
To the excellent musician Ieduthun. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.
2 Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis: et dolor meus renovatus est.
I was dumme and spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.
3 Concaluit cor meum intra me: et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.
Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,
4 Locutus sum in lingua mea: Notum fac mihi Domine finem meum. Et numerum dierum meorum quis est: ut sciam quid desit mihi.
Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.
5 Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos: et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.
Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. (Selah)
6 Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo: sed et frustra conturbatur. Thesaurizat: et ignorat cui congregabit ea.
Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
7 Et nunc quæ est expectatio mea? nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.
And now Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.
8 Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me: opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.
Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.
9 Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti:
I should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.
10 amove a me plagas tuas.
Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.
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.
When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. (Selah)
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.
Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.
13 Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam, et amplius non ero.
Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.
