Psalms 39

NEW JERUSALEM	VULGATA
1 [For the choirmaster For Jeduthun Psalm Of David] I said, 'I wil watch how I behave so that I do notsin by my tongue. I will keep a muzzle on my mouth as long as any sinner is near.'	1 In finem. Psalmus ipsi David.
2 I stayed dumb, silent, speechless, but the sinner's prosperity redoubled my torment.	2 Exspectans exspectavi Dominum, et intendit mihi.
3 My heart had been smouldering within me, but at the thought of this it flared up and the words camebursting out,	3 Et exaudivit preces meas, et eduxit me de lacu miseriæ et de luto fæcis. Et statuit super petram pedes meos, et direxit gressus meos.
4 'Yahweh, let me know my fate, how much longer I have to live. Show me just how frail I am.	4 Et immisit in os meum canticum novum, carmen Deo nostro. Videbunt multi, et timebunt, et sperabunt in Domino.
5 'Look, you have given me but a hand's breadth or two of life, the length of my life is as nothing to you.Every human being that stands on earth is a mere puff of wind,	5 Beatus vir cujus est nomen Domini spes ejus, et non respexit in vanitates et insanias falsas.
6 every human being that walks only a shadow; a mere puff of wind is the wealth stored away -- noknowing who wil profit from it.'	6 Multa fecisti tu, Domine Deus meus, mirabilia tua ; et cogitationibus tuis non est qui similis sit tibi. Annuntiavi et locutus sum : multiplicati sunt super numerum.
7 So now, Lord, what am I to hope for? My hope is in you.	7 Sacrificium et oblationem noluisti ; aures autem perfecisti mihi. Holocaustum et pro peccato non postulasti ;
8 Save me from al my sins, do not make me the butt of fools.	8 tunc dixi : Ecce venio. In capite libri scriptum est de me,
9 I keep silence, I speak no more since you yourself have been at work.	9 ut facerem voluntatem tuam. Deus meus, volui, et legem tuam in medio cordis mei.
10 Take your scourge away from me. I am worn out by the blows you deal me.	10 Annuntiavi justitiam tuam in ecclesia magna ; ecce labia mea non prohibebo : Domine, tu scisti.
11 You correct human beings by punishing sin, like a moth you eat away all their desires -- a humanbeing is a mere puff of wind.	11 Justitiam tuam non abscondi in corde meo ; veritatem tuam et salutare tuum dixi ; non abscondi misericordiam tuam et veritatem tuam a concilio multo.
12 Yahweh, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for help, do not remain deaf to my weeping. For I am astranger in your house, a nomad like al my ancestors.	12 Tu autem, Domine, ne longe facias miserationes tuas a me ; misericordia tua et veritas tua semper susceperunt me.
13 Turn away your gaze that I may breathe freely before I depart and am no more!	13 Quoniam circumdederunt me mala quorum non est numerus ; comprehenderunt me iniquitates meæ, et non potui ut viderem. Multiplicatæ sunt super capillos capitis mei, et cor meum dereliquit me.
	14 Complaceat tibi, Domine, ut eruas me ; Domine, ad adjuvandum me respice.
	15 Confundantur et revereantur simul, qui quærunt animam meam ut auferant eam ; convertantur retrorsum et revereantur, qui volunt mihi mala.
	16 Ferant confestim confusionem suam, qui dicunt mihi : Euge, euge !
	17 Exsultent et lætentur super te omnes quærentes te ; et dicant semper : Magnificetur Dominus, qui diligunt salutare tuum.
	18 Ego autem mendicus sum et pauper ; Dominus sollicitus est mei. Adjutor meus et protector meus tu es ; Deus meus, ne tardaveris.