PSALM 39

PSALM 39

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^a 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^b.  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. 

⁷And 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^c 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.

The Holy Bible

King James Version

The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

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^a my mouth...: Heb. a bridle, or, muzzle for my mouth

^b stirred: Heb. troubled

^† A Hebrew word occurs that is not directly translated in the King James Version.
Hebrew Strongs: 227

^c blow: Heb. conflict