DRC, KJV, VulgClementine - Psalms - 39

39:1  Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

39:1  I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

39:1  In finem. Psalmus ipsi David.

39:2  With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.

39:2  I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

39:2  Exspectans exspectavi Dominum, et intendit mihi.

39:3  And 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.

39:3  My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

39:3  Et exaudivit preces meas, et eduxit me de lacu miseriæ et de luto fæcis. Et statuit super petram pedes meos, et direxit gressus meos.

39:4  And 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.

39:4  Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

39:4  Et immisit in os meum canticum novum, carmen Deo nostro. Videbunt multi, et timebunt, et sperabunt in Domino.

39:5  Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.

39:5  Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

39:5  Beatus vir cujus est nomen Domini spes ejus, et non respexit in vanitates et insanias falsas.

39:6  Thou 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.

39:6  Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

39:6  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.

39:7  Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:

39:7  And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

39:7  Sacrificium et oblationem noluisti ; aures autem perfecisti mihi. Holocaustum et pro peccato non postulasti ;

39:8  Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me

39:8  Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

39:8  tunc dixi : Ecce venio. In capite libri scriptum est de me,

39:9  That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

39:9  I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

39:9  ut facerem voluntatem tuam. Deus meus, volui, et legem tuam in medio cordis mei.

39:10  I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.

39:10  Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

39:10  Annuntiavi justitiam tuam in ecclesia magna ; ecce labia mea non prohibebo : Domine, tu scisti.

39:11  I 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.

39:11  When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

39:11  Justitiam tuam non abscondi in corde meo ; veritatem tuam et salutare tuum dixi ; non abscondi misericordiam tuam et veritatem tuam a concilio multo.

39:12  Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.

39:12  Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

39:12  Tu autem, Domine, ne longe facias miserationes tuas a me ; misericordia tua et veritas tua semper susceperunt me.

39:13  For 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.

39:13  O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

39:13  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.

39:14  Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.

39:14  Complaceat tibi, Domine, ut eruas me ; Domine, ad adjuvandum me respice.

39:15  Let 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.

39:15  Confundantur et revereantur simul, qui quærunt animam meam ut auferant eam ; convertantur retrorsum et revereantur, qui volunt mihi mala.

39:16  Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis well.

39:16  Ferant confestim confusionem suam, qui dicunt mihi : Euge, euge !

39:17  Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.

39:17  Exsultent et lætentur super te omnes quærentes te ; et dicant semper : Magnificetur Dominus, qui diligunt salutare tuum.

39:18  But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.

39:18  Ego autem mendicus sum et pauper ; Dominus sollicitus est mei. Adjutor meus et protector meus tu es ; Deus meus, ne tardaveris.