PS-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.

PS-39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from

good; and my

sorrow was stirred.

PS-39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire

burned: [then]

spake I with my tongue,

PS-39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my

days, what it

[is; that] I may know how frail I [am].

PS-39:5 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.

PS-39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are

disquieted in

vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather

them.

PS-39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.

PS-39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the

reproach of the

foolish.

PS-39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst

[it].

PS-39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the

blow of thine

hand.

PS-39:11 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.

PS-39:12 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].

PS-39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go

hence, and be no

more.

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