Psalm 39

Common English Bible

Psalm 39

For the music leader. To Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

39 I promised I would watch my steps
    so as not to sin with my tongue;
    promised to keep my mouth shut
    as long as the wicked were in my presence.
²So I was completely quiet, silent.
    I kept my peace, but it did no good.
    My pain got worse.
³My heart got hot inside me;
    while stewing over it, the fire burned.
Then I spoke out with my tongue:
⁴    “Let me know my end, Lord.
    How many days do I have left?
    I want to know how brief my time is.”
⁵You’ve made my days so short;
    my lifetime is like nothing in your eyes.
        Yes, a human life is nothing but a puff of air! Selah

⁶Yes, people wander around like shadows;
    yes, they hustle and bustle, but pointlessly;
        they don’t even know who will get the wealth they’ve amassed.
⁷So now, Lord, what should I be waiting for?
        My hope is set on you.
⁸Deliver me from all my sins;
    don’t make me some foolish person’s joke.
⁹I am completely silent; I won’t open my mouth
    because you have acted.
¹⁰Get this plague of yours off me!
    I’m being destroyed by the blows from your fist.
¹¹You discipline people for their sin, punishing them;
    like a moth, you ruin what they treasure.
        Yes, a human life is just a puff of air! Selah

¹²Hear my prayer, Lord!
    Listen closely to my cry for help!
Please don’t ignore my tears!
    I’m just a foreigner—
        an immigrant staying with you,
        just like all my ancestors were.
¹³Look away from me
    so I can be happy again
    before I pass away and am gone.

詩篇 39

Chinese Union Version (Traditional)

39 （大衛的詩，交與伶長耶杜頓。）我曾說：我要謹慎我的言行，免得我舌頭犯罪；惡人在我面前的時候，我要用嚼環勒住我的口。

²我默然無聲，連好話也不出口；我的愁苦就發動了，

³我的心在我裡面發熱。我默想的時候，火就燒起，我便用舌頭說話。

⁴耶和華啊，求你叫我曉得我身之終！我的壽數幾何？叫我知道我的生命不長！

⁵你使我的年日窄如手掌；我一生的年數，在你面前如同無有。各人最穩妥的時候，真是全然虛幻。（細拉）

⁶世人行動實係幻影。他們忙亂，真是枉然；積蓄財寶，不知將來有誰收取。

⁷主啊，如今我等甚麼呢？我的指望在乎你！

⁸求你救我脫離一切的過犯，不要使我受愚頑人的羞辱。

⁹因我所遭遇的是出於你，我就默然不語。

¹⁰求你把你的責罰從我身上免去；因你手的責打，我便消滅。

¹¹你因人的罪惡懲罰他的時候，叫他的笑容（的笑容：或譯所喜愛的）消滅，如衣被蟲所咬。世人真是虛幻！（細拉）

¹²耶和華啊，求你聽我的禱告，留心聽我的呼求！我流淚，求你不要靜默無聲！因為我在你面前是客旅，是寄居的，像我列祖一般。

¹³求你寬容我，使我在去而不返之先可以力量復原。

Psalm 39

New King James Version

Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness

To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

39 I said, “I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my ^(A)tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
²^(B)I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
³My heart was hot within me;
While I was ^[a]musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:

⁴“Lord, ^(C)make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.
⁵Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but ^(D)vapor. Selah
⁶Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they ^[b]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.

⁷“And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My ^(E)hope is in You.
⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me ^(F)the reproach of the foolish.
⁹^(G)I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was ^(H)You who did it.
¹⁰^(I)Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
¹¹When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty ^(J)melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah

¹²“Hear my prayer, O Lord,
And give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, ^(K)as all my fathers were.
¹³^(L)Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and ^(M)am no more.”

Footnotes

Psalm 39:3 meditating
Psalm 39:6 make an uproar for nothing

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Psalm 39 Common English Bible