Young's Literal Translation

 

The Book of Psalms

 

Chapter 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.'

    
 
 

2.

 

I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

    
 
 

3.

 

Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken 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].

    
 
 

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.

    
 
 

6.

 

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

    
 
 

7.

 

And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it [is] of Thee.

    
 
 

8.

 

From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

    
 
 

9.

 

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done [it].

    
 
 

10.

 

Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

    
 
 

11.

 

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. 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.

    
 
 

13.

 

Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

    
 
 

Psalms 40

 

 

 

 

 
 
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