PSALM 39. Dixi, custodiam. 2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight. : 3 I held my tongue, and spake nothing : I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me. 4 My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue; : 5 Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. 6 Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. : 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. 8 And now, Lord, what is my hope: truly my hope is even in thee. 9 Deliver me from all mine offences: and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. 10 I became dumb, and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing. 11 Take thy plague away from me : I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand. 12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity. 13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling : hold not thy peace at my tears. 14 For I am a stranger with thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 15 O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go hence, and be no : more seen. PSALM 40. Expectans expectavi. Waited patiently for the Lord : and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling. 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay : and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth : even a thanksgiving unto our God. 4 Many shall see it, and fear : and shall put their trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies. : 6 O Lord my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward. and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. 7 If I should declare them, and speak of them they should be more than I am able to express. : 8 Sacrifice, and meat-offering, thou wouldest not but mine ears hast thou opened. 9 Burnt-offerings, and sacrifice for sin, hast thou not required: then said I, Lo, I come, 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart. 11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation : lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, and that thou knowest. 12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation. : 13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth from the great congregation. : 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me, O Lord let thy loving-kindness and thy truth alway preserve me. 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up: yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. 16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me: make haste, O Lord, to help me. the living God: when shall I come to appear before the presence of God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God? 4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving : among such as keep holy-day. 6 Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? : 7 Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance. 8 My God, my soul is vexed within me : therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon. 9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the water-pipes : all thy waves and storms are gone over me. : 10 The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness in the day-time and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. 11 I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me: why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword while mine enemies that trouble : me cast me in the teeth; 13 Namely, while they say daily unto me : Where is now thy God? : 14 Why art thou so vexed, O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? 15 O put thy trust in God: for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. PSALM 43. Judica me, Deus. GIVE IVE sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man. : 2 For thou art the God of my strength, why hast thou put me from thee: and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 3 O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me : and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. 4 And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness : and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, my God. : 5 Why art thou so heavy, O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? 6 O put thy trust in God for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. F : |