Psalms 39

Psalms 39:1  
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Psalms 39:2  
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 39:3  
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

Psalms 39:4  
“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Psalms 39:5  
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

Psalms 39:6  
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Psalms 39:7  
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

Psalms 39:8  
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

Psalms 39:9  
I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

Psalms 39:10  
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Psalms 39:11  
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

Psalms 39:12  
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Psalms 39:13  
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”


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