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  • Psalm 39a

    For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

    I said, “I will watch my ways
    and keep my tongue from sin;
    I will put a muzzle on my mouth
    while in the presence of the wicked.”
  • I Will Watch My Ways

    {To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
  • So I remained utterly silent,
    not even saying anything good.
    But my anguish increased;
  • I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  • my heart grew hot within me.
    While I meditated, the fire burned;
    then I spoke with my tongue:
  • My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
  • “Show me, Lord, my life’s end
    and the number of my days;
    let me know how fleeting my life is.
  • LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
  • You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
    Everyone is but a breath,
    even those who seem secure.b
  • 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.
  • “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;
    in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth
    without knowing whose it will finally be.
  • 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.
  • “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
    My hope is in you.
  • And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
  • Save me from all my transgressions;
    do not make me the scorn of fools.
  • Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
  • I was silent; I would not open my mouth,
    for you are the one who has done this.
  • I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
  • Remove your scourge from me;
    I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
  • Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
  • When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,
    you consume their wealth like a moth —
    surely everyone is but a breath.
  • 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.
  • “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;
    do not be deaf to my weeping.
    I dwell with you as a foreigner,
    a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
  • 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.
  • Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”
  • O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

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