Psalm 39

TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN, EVEN TO JEDUTHUN, A PSALM OF DAVID.

1 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 show:

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.

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