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 pro victoria David canticum
2 expectans expectavi Dominum et inclinatus est ad me
3 et audivit clamorem meum
et eduxit me de lacu famoso de luto
caeni
et statuit super petram pedes meos
stabilivit gressus meos
4 et dedit in ore meo canticum novum laudem Deo nostro
videbunt multi et timebunt et sperabunt in Domino
5 beatus vir qui posuit Dominum confidentiam suam
et non est aversus ad superbias pompasque mendacii
6 multa fecisti tu Domine Deus meus mirabilia tua
et cogitationes tuas pro nobis
non invenio ordinem coram te
si narrare voluero et numerare
plura sunt quam ut narrari queant
7 victima et oblatione non indiges
aures fodisti mihi holocaustum et pro peccato non petisti
8 tunc dixi ecce venio in volumine libri scriptum est de me
9 ut facerem placitum tibi Deus meus volui
et legem tuam in medio ventris mei
10 adnuntiavi iustum in ecclesia multa
ecce labia mea non prohibebo Domine tu nosti
11 iustitiam tuam non abscondi in medio cordis mei
fidem tuam et salutare tuum dixi
non abscondi misericordiam tuam
et veritatem tuam in ecclesia multa
12 tu Domine non prohibebis misericordias tuas a me
misericordia tua et veritas iugiter servabunt
me
13 circumdederunt enim me mala quorum non est numerus
conprehenderunt me iniquitates meae et non potui videre
plures factae sunt quam capilli capitis mei
et cor meum dereliquit me
14 placeat tibi Domine ut liberes me
Domine ad adiuvandum me festina
15 confundantur et revereantur simul
quaerentes animam meam ut auferant eam
convertantur retrorsum et confundantur
qui volunt mala mihi
16 pereant post confusionem suam qui dicunt mihi va va
17 gaudeant et laetentur in te qui quaerunt te
dicant iugiter magnificetur Dominus qui diligunt salutare tuum
18 ego autem sum egens et pauper
Dominus sollicitus erit pro me
auxilium meum et salutare meum tu
Deus meus ne moreris