Zabur 39

For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by Dawud.

¹I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue.

I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

²I was mute with silence.

I held my peace, even from good.

My sorrow was stirred.

³My heart was hot within me.

While I meditated, the fire burned:

I spoke with my tongue:

⁴"Allah, show me my end,

What is the measure of my days.

Let me know how frail I am.

⁵Behold, you have made my days handbreadths.

My lifetime is as nothing before you.

Surely every man stands as a breath."

Selah.

⁶"Surely every man walks like a shadow.

Surely they busy themselves in vain.

He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather.

⁷Now, Lord, what do I wait for?

My hope is in you.

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions.

Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

⁹I was mute.

I did not open my mouth,

Because you did it.

¹⁰Remove your scourge away from me.

I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

¹¹When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,

You consume his wealth like a moth.

Surely every man is but a breath."

Selah.

¹²"Hear my prayer, Allah, and give ear to my cry.

Do not be silent at my tears.

For I am a stranger with you,

A foreigner, as all my fathers were.

¹³Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,

Before I go away, and be no more."