The Psalms

Psalm 39

For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

 ^39:1I 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.

 ^39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;

 And my sorrow was stirred.

 ^39:3My heart was hot within me;

 While I was musing the fire burned:

 Then spake I with my tongue:

 ^39:4Jehovah, make me to know mine end,

 And the measure of my days, what it is;

 Let me know how frail I am.

 ^39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;

 And my life-time is as nothing before thee:

 Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.

Selah

 ^39:6Surely every man walketh in a vain show;

 Surely they are disquieted in vain:

 He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

 ^39:7And now, Lord, what wait I for?

 My hope is in thee.

 ^39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions:

 Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

 ^39:9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;

 Because thou didst it.

 ^39:10Remove thy stroke away from me:

 I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

 ^39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,

 Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:

 Surely every man is vanity.

Selah

 ^39:12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;

 Hold not thy peace at my tears:

 For I am a stranger with thee,

 A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

 ^39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,

 Before I go hence, and be no more.