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Psalms 39
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
1 I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
2With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.
2I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.
3My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,
3 My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
4And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.
4Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
4 Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
5Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.
5You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
6Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.
6Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
6 Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:
7And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
7 And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.
8Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me
8Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
9I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done [it].
10I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.
10No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
11I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.
11By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
12Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
12Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
12 Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
13For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.
13Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
13 Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
14Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.
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15Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.
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16Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis well.
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