Psalm 39

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	Translation	Transliteration
1.	For the choir director, to yedyothun A worship song of David.	lamnatstsêach lîydyôthun miz^emôwr l^edawid
2.	I said, “I will guard my choices from going astray at my tongue. I will guard my mouth with a muzzle while yet the wicked are in my sight”.	’âmartîy ’eshm^erâh d^erâkhay mêch^atôw’ bil^eshôwnîy ’eshm^erâh l^epîy mach^eçôwm b^e‘ôd râshâ‘ l^eneg^edîy
3.	I bound myself up in resignation, abstaining from goodness, so my pain was stirred up.	ne’^elam^etîy dûmîyyâh hech^eshêythîy mittôwb ûkh^e’êbîy ne‘kâr
4.	Hot was my heart in my inner self, in my musing burned fire: I put words to my tongue,	cham-libbîy b^eqir^ebîy bah^agîygîy thib‘ar-’êsh dibbar^etîy bil^eshôwnîy
5.	“Make me know, Yahweh, my ending, and the extent of my days - what is that? I would know how fleeting am I.	hôwdîy‘ênîy YHVH qitstsîy ûmiddath yâmay mah-hîy’ ’êd^e‘âh meh-châdêl ’ânîy
6.	See now, hand-breadths you gave as my days and my world is as nothing in your sight”. Surely all inconsequential, all of Adam's monuments, · Çelah	hinneh t^ephâchôwth nâthattâh yâmay w^echel^edîy kh^e’ayin neg^edekhâ ’akh kol-hebel kol-’âdâm nitstsâb çelâh
7.	surely mere semblance, the affairs of man, surely inconsequential flustering: one heaps together, but does not know who will gather.	’akh-b^etselem yithhallekh-’îysh ’akh-hebel yeh^emâyûn yits^ebôr w^elô’-yêda‘ mîy-’ôç^ephâm
8.	Yet now, what do I long to look for, Adonay? my hope: it waits for you.	w^e‘attâh mah-qqiwwîythîy ’^adônây tôwchal^etîy l^ekhâ hîy’
9.	From all my rebellion, tear me away, the reproach of a fool do not set against me.	mikkol-p^eshâ‘ay hatstsîylênîy cher^epath nâbâl ’al-t^esîymênîy
10.	I bound myself up, never opening my mouth since you, it is you who devised this.	ne’^elam^etîy lô’ ’eph^etach-pîy kîy ’attâh ‘âsîythâ
11.	Lift away from upon me your affliction: from hostility at your hand I am spent.	hâçêr mê‘âlay nig‘ekhâ mittig^erath yâd^ekhâ ’^anîy kâlîythîy
12.	With reproofs against straying you discipline man - disintegrating like the moth his fancy - surely inconsequential, all of Adam. · Çelah	b^ethôwkhâchôwth ‘al-‘âwon yiççar^etâ ’îysh wattemeç kâ‘âsh ch^amûdôw ’akh hebel kol-’âdâm çelâh
13.	“Hear my prayer, Yahweh and to my plea give ear. As for my tears, do not be aloof for a stranger am I with you, a migrant like all my fathers.	shim‘âh th^ephillâthîy YHVH w^eshaw‘âthîy ha’^azîynâh ’el-dim‘âthîy ’al-tech^erash kîy gêr ’ânôkhîy ‘immâkh tôwshâb k^ekhol-’^abôthây
14.	Direct your gaze away from me, and I can rekindle before I go and am no more”	hâsha‘ mimmennîy w^e’ab^elîygâh b^eterem ’êlêkh w^e’êynennîy

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