Salmos 39

1Al maestro de coro, a Iditún. Salmo de David.

2Yo me dije: “Atenderé a mis caminos, para no pecar con mi lengua; pondré un freno a mi boca mientras el impío esté frente a mí.”

3Y quedé silencioso, mudo; callé aun el bien; pero mi dolor se exasperaba.

4El corazón ardía en mi pecho; cuando reflexionaba, el fuego se encendía; entonces solté mi lengua diciendo:

5“Hazme saber, Yahvé, cuál es mi fin, y cuál el número de mis días, para que entienda cuan caduco soy.

6Tú diste a mis días un largo de pocos palmos, y mi vida es como nada ante Ti. Un mero soplo es todo hombre.

7Como una sombra, pasa el mortal, y vanamente se inquieta; atesora, y no sabe quién recogerá.”

8Así pues ¿qué espero yo ahora, Señor? Toda mi esperanza está en Ti.

9Sálvame Tú de todas mis iniquidades; no me entregues al escarnio del necio.

10Enmudezco y no abro más mi boca; porque todo lo haces Tú.

11Solo aparta de mí tu azote, pues ante el poder de tu mano desfallezco.

12Tú castigas al hombre por su culpa; destruyes, como la polilla, lo que él más aprecia. En verdad, todo hombre no es más que un soplo.

13Escucha, Yahvé, mi ruego, presta oído a mis clamores, no te hagas sordo a mis lágrimas; porque frente a Ti yo soy un peregrino, un transeúnte, como fueron todos mis padres.

14Deja de castigarme para que respire, antes que parta y ya no esté.

1In finem, ipsi Idithun. Canticum David.

2[Dixi: Custodiam vias meas: ut non delinquam in lingua mea. Posui ori meo custodiam, cum consisteret peccator adversum me.

3Obmutui, et humiliatus sum, et silui a bonis; et dolor meus renovatus est.

4Concaluit cor meum intra me; et in meditatione mea exardescet ignis.

5Locutus sum in lingua mea: Notum fac mihi, Domine, finem meum, et numerum dierum meorum quis est, ut sciam quid desit mihi.

6Ecce mensurabiles posuisti dies meos, et substantia mea tamquam nihilum ante te. Verumtamen universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens.

7Verumtamen in imagine pertransit homo; sed et frustra conturbatur: thesaurizat, et ignorat cui congregabit ea.

8Et nunc quæ est exspectatio mea: nonne Dominus? et substantia mea apud te est.

9Ab omnibus iniquitatibus meis erue me: opprobrium insipienti dedisti me.

10Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti;

11amove a me plagas tuas.

12A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus: propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus: verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.

13Exaudi orationem meam, Domine, et deprecationem meam; auribus percipe lacrimas meas. Ne sileas, quoniam advena ego sum apud te, et peregrinus sicut omnes patres mei.

14Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer priusquam abeam et amplius non ero.]

1Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.

2I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

3I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.

4My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

5I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

6Behold thou hast made my days measurable: and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

7Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

8And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.

9Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

10I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

11Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

12Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

13Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

14O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.