תהילים ל״טPsalms 39

For the leader; for Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

I resolved I would watch my step
lest I offend by my speech;
I would keep my mouth muzzled
while the villain was in my presence.

I was dumb, silent;
I was very in Hos. 10.1; Jonah 4.4. still
while my pain was intense.

My mind was in a rage,
my thoughts were all aflame;
I spoke out:

Tell me, O ETERNAL One, what my term is,
what is the measure of my days;
I would know how fleeting my life is.

You have made my life just handbreadths long;
its span is as nothing in Your sight;
no human endures any longer than a breath. Selah.

Everyone walks about as a mere shadow;
mere futility is their hustle and bustle,
amassing and not knowing who will gather in.

What, then, can I count on, O my Sovereign?
In You my hope lies.

Deliver me from all my transgressions;
make me not the butt of the benighted.

I am dumb, I do not speak up,
for it is Your doing.

Take away Your plague from me;
I perish from Your blows.

You chastise everyone in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what they treasure.
No human is more than a breath. Selah.

Hear my prayer, O ETERNAL One;
give ear to my cry;
do not disregard my tears;
for like all my forebears
I am an alien, resident with You.

Look away from me, that I may recover,
before I pass away and am gone.