To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
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.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
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 .
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.
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.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it .
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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.
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 .
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
1 Εἰς τὸ τέλος· τῷ Δαυιδ ψαλμός.
2 Ὑπομένων ὑπέμεινα τὸν κύριον,
καὶ προσέσχεν μοι καὶ εἰσήκουσεν τῆς δεήσεώς μου
3 καὶ ἀνήγαγέν με ἐκ λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας
καὶ ἀπὸ πηλοῦ ἰλύος
καὶ ἔστησεν ἐπὶ πέτραν τοὺς πόδας μου
καὶ κατηύθυνεν τὰ διαβήματά μου
4 καὶ ἐνέβαλεν εἰς τὸ στόμα μου ᾆσμα καινόν,
ὕμνον τῷ θεῷ ἡμῶν·
ὄψονται πολλοὶ καὶ φοβηθήσονται
καὶ ἐλπιοῦσιν ἐπὶ κύριον.
5 μακάριος ἀνήρ, οὗ ἐστιν τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου ἐλπὶς αὐτοῦ
καὶ οὐκ ἐνέβλεψεν εἰς ματαιότητας καὶ μανίας ψευδεῖς.
6 πολλὰ ἐποίησας σύ, κύριε ὁ θεός μου, τὰ θαυμάσιά σου,
καὶ τοῖς διαλογισμοῖς σου οὐκ ἔστιν τίς ὁμοιωθήσεταί σοι·
ἀπήγγειλα καὶ ἐλάλησα, ἐπληθύνθησαν ὑπὲρ ἀριθμόν.
7 θυσίαν καὶ προσφορὰν οὐκ ἠθέλησας,
ὠτία δὲ κατηρτίσω μοι·
ὁλοκαύτωμα καὶ περὶ ἁμαρτίας οὐκ ᾔτησας.
8 τότε εἶπον Ἰδοὺ ἥκω,
ἐν κεφαλίδι βιβλίου γέγραπται περὶ ἐμοῦ·
9 τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ θέλημά σου, ὁ θεός μου, ἐβουλήθην
καὶ τὸν νόμον σου ἐν μέσῳ τῆς κοιλίας μου.
10 εὐηγγελισάμην δικαιοσύνην ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ μεγάλῃ·
ἰδοὺ τὰ χείλη μου οὐ μὴ κωλύσω·
κύριε, σὺ ἔγνως.
11 τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου οὐκ ἔκρυψα ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ μου,
τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου καὶ τὸ σωτήριόν σου εἶπα,
οὐκ ἔκρυψα τὸ ἔλεός σου καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου ἀπὸ συναγωγῆς πολλῆς.
12 σὺ δέ, κύριε, μὴ μακρύνῃς τοὺς οἰκτιρμούς σου ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ·
τὸ ἔλεός σου καὶ ἡ ἀλήθειά σου διὰ παντὸς ἀντελάβοντό μου.
13 ὅτι περιέσχον με κακά, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός,
κατέλαβόν με αἱ ἀνομίαι μου, καὶ οὐκ ἠδυνήθην τοῦ βλέπειν·
ἐπληθύνθησαν ὑπὲρ τὰς τρίχας τῆς κεφαλῆς μου,
καὶ ἡ καρδία μου ἐγκατέλιπέν με.
14 εὐδόκησον, κύριε, τοῦ ῥύσασθαί με·
κύριε, εἰς τὸ βοηθῆσαί μοι πρόσχες.
15 καταισχυνθείησαν καὶ ἐντραπείησαν ἅμα οἱ ζητοῦντες τὴν ψυχήν μου τοῦ ἐξᾶραι αὐτήν,
ἀποστραφείησαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω καὶ ἐντραπείησαν οἱ θέλοντές μοι κακά,
16 κομισάσθωσαν παραχρῆμα αἰσχύνην αὐτῶν οἱ λέγοντές μοι Εὖγε εὖγε.
17 ἀγαλλιάσαιντο καὶ εὐφρανθείησαν ἐπὶ σοὶ πάντες οἱ ζητοῦντές σε, κύριε,
καὶ εἰπάτωσαν διὰ παντός Μεγαλυνθήτω ὁ κύριος, οἱ ἀγαπῶντες τὸ σωτήριόν σου.
18 ἐγὼ δὲ πτωχός εἰμι καὶ πένης· κύριος φροντιεῖ μου.
βοηθός μου καὶ ὑπερασπιστής μου σὺ εἶ· ὁ θεός μου, μὴ χρονίσῃς.