1 Al director musical. Para Jedutún. Salmo de David. Yo dije para mí: voy a vigilar mi conducta y no pecaré con la lengua. Me pondré una mordaza en la boca especialmente cuando los impíos me rodeen. 2 Pero guardaba silencio. ¡Ni aun lo bueno salía de mi boca! La tormenta creció dentro de mí hasta que estuvo a punto de estallar. 3 Cuanto más meditaba, tanto más ardía ese fuego interno. Por fin hablé, y supliqué a Dios: 4 «Señor, ayúdame a comprender lo corto que será mi tiempo en la tierra. Ayúdame a comprender que mis días están contados y que mi vida se me escapa de las manos. 5 Muy breve es mi vida. Toda entera no es más que un momento para ti. ¡La existencia humana es como un soplo! 6 ¡Simple sombra! Y sus múltiples afanes en nada paran. Amontona riqueza para que otro la derroche. 7 Entonces, Señor, mi única esperanza está en ti. 8 »Líbrame de ser vencido por mis pecados, pues entonces aun los necios se burlarán de mí. 9 »Señor, ante ti estoy mudo. No abriré mi boca para decir ni una queja, pues mi castigo procede de ti. 10 »Señor, no me hieras más; agotado estoy bajo tu mano. 11 Cuando lo castigas por sus pecados, el ser humano queda destruido, pues es tan frágil como trapo roído de polilla; sí, la existencia humana es como un soplo. 12 »¡Escucha mi plegaria, Señor; escucha mi clamor! No te quedes indiferente a mis lágrimas, porque soy huésped tuyo, soy viajero que pasa por la tierra, como lo fueron todos mis antepasados. 13 »¡Dame respiro, Señor! Deja que me restablezca y sonría otra vez antes que muera».
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Psalm 39 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (13)
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- 1 Proverbs 21:23; Psalm 141:3; James 1:26; Psalm 119:9; Micah 7:5–6
- 2 Matthew 27:12–14; Acts 4:20; Psalm 38:13–14; Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 7:6
- 3 Jeremiah 20:9; Luke 24:32; Ezekiel 3:14
- 4 Psalm 90:12; Psalm 103:14; Psalm 119:84; Job 14:13
- 5 Psalm 144:4; Psalm 89:47; Psalm 62:9; Psalm 90:9–10; Ecclesiastes 2:11
- 6 Luke 12:20–21; James 4:14; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Psalm 127:2; Ecclesiastes 12:13
- 7 Romans 15:13; Psalm 38:15; Psalm 119:81; Genesis 49:18; Psalm 119:166
- 8 Psalm 51:14; Psalm 44:13; Joel 2:17; Micah 7:19; Psalm 79:4
- 9 Job 2:10; 1 Samuel 3:18; Job 40:4–5; Daniel 4:35; 2 Samuel 16:10
- 10 Job 9:34; Job 13:21; Psalm 32:4; Psalm 25:16–17; Psalm 38:3–4
- 11 Job 13:28; Hebrews 12:6; Isaiah 50:9; Revelation 3:19; 1 Corinthians 11:30–32
- 12 1 Peter 2:11; Hebrews 11:13; 2 Kings 20:5; Leviticus 25:23; Psalm 116:3
- 13 Job 14:5–6; Job 10:20–21; Job 14:10–12; Job 7:19; Genesis 5:24
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
What doth this recollection of the Sabbath mean? What is this Sabbath? For it is with groaning that he "calls it to recollection." You have both heard already when the Psalm was read, and you will now hear it when we shall go over it, how great is his groaning, his mourning, his tears, his misery.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… feed upon me; nor shall thou convert me, like the food of thy flesh, into thee, but thou shall be converted into me." And I learned that Thou for iniquity dost correct man, and Thou dost make my soul to consume away like a spider. And I said, "Is Truth, therefore, nothing because it is neither diffused through space, finite, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
"For I am a stranger," saith he, "and a sojourner, as all my fathers were." For this man, and all that are like him, let pass them that had sinned, and thought of those who had approved themselves.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
This is my hope; for this do I live, that I may contemplate the delights of the Lord. Behold, Thou hast made my days old, and they pass away, and in what manner I know not.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)