Psalms 39
1 For the chief musician, for Jeduthun. A psalm of David. I decided, “I will watch what I say so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will muzzle my mouth while in the presence of an evil man.”
2 I kept silent; I kept back my words even from saying anything good, and my pain grew worse.
3 My heart became hot; when I thought about these things, it burned like a fire. Then finally I spoke.
4 “Yahweh, make me know when will be the end of my life and the extent of my days. Show me how transient I am.
5 See, you have made my days only the width of my hand, and my lifetime is like nothing before you. Surely every man is a single breath. Selah
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow. Surely everyone hurries about to accumulate riches although they do not know who will receive them.
7 Now, Lord, for what am I waiting? You are my only hope.
8 Rescue me from my sins; do not make me the reproach of fools.
9 I am silent and cannot open my mouth, because it is you who has done it.
10 Stop wounding me; I am overwhelmed by the blow of your hand.
11 When you discipline people for sin, you consume the things they desire like a moth; surely all people are nothing but vapor. Selah
12 Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and listen to me; listen to my weeping! Do not be deaf to me, for I am like a foreigner with you, a refugee like all my ancestors were.
13 Turn your gaze from me so that I may smile again before I die.”
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