Psalms 39
1 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.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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.
7 And 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 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.
Cross-references
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- 1Pro 21:23, Psa 141:3, Jas 1:26, Psa 119:9, Psa 34:13, Mic 7:5–6, Jas 3:2–8, Pro 18:21
- 2Act 4:20, Mat 27:12–14, Isa 53:7, Psa 38:13–14, Mat 7:6, Job 32:19–20
- 3Jer 20:9, Luk 24:32, Ezk 3:14
- 4Psa 90:12, Psa 103:14, Job 14:13, Psa 119:84
- 5Psa 89:47, Psa 144:4, Psa 62:9, Psa 90:9–10, Psa 39:11, Ecc 2:11, Job 14:1–2, Jas 4:14
- 6Luk 12:20–21, Ecc 2:26, Jas 4:14, Psa 127:2, Ecc 12:13, 1Co 7:31, 1Pe 5:7, Luk 12:29
- 7Rom 15:13, Psa 38:15, Psa 119:81, Gen 49:18, Psa 119:166, Job 13:15, Psa 130:5–6, Luk 2:25
- 8Psa 51:14, Psa 44:13, Mic 7:19, Jol 2:17, Psa 57:3, Psa 25:11, Psa 65:3, Psa 51:7–10
- 9Job 2:10, 1Sa 3:18, 2Sa 16:10, Job 40:4–5, Dan 4:35, Job 1:21, Lev 10:3, Psa 38:13
- 10Job 9:34, Job 13:21, Psa 38:3–4, Psa 25:16–17, Psa 32:4, 1Sa 6:5, Job 40:8
- 11Job 13:28, Isa 50:9, Heb 12:6, Rev 3:19, 1Co 11:30–32, 1Co 5:5, Psa 102:10–11, Job 4:19
- 121Pe 2:11, Heb 11:13, Lev 25:23, 2Ki 20:5, Gen 47:9, Psa 116:3, Psa 119:19, Psa 56:8
- 13Job 10:20–21, Job 14:5–6, Job 14:10–12, Job 7:19, Gen 42:36, Gen 5:24
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Beauty, Bridle, Care, David, Death, Desire, Ear, Faith, Handbreadth, Hope, Life, Measure, Meditation, Moth, Prudence, Psalms, Resignation, Speaking, Tears, Vanity, Waiting, Watchfulness, Wicked (People), Wisdom