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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 39 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/39.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/39-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Psalm 39</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/38.htm" title="Psalm 38">◄</a> Psalm 39 <a href="../psalms/40.htm" title="Psalm 40">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/39-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>TO THE OVERSEER. FOR JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have said, “I observe my ways, "" Against sinning with my tongue, "" I keep a curb for my mouth, "" While the wicked [is] before me.”<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I was mute [with] silence, "" I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>My heart [is] hot within me, "" In my meditating the fire burns, "" I have spoken with my tongue.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, "" And the measure of my days—what it [is],” "" I know how frail I [am].<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, "" And my age [is] as nothing before You, "" Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Only, each habitually walks in an image, "" Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, "" He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Deliver me from all my transgressions, "" Do not make me a reproach of the fool.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, "" Because You have done [it].<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Turn aside Your stroke from off me, "" From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>With reproofs against iniquity, "" You have corrected man, "" And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, "" Only, every man [is] vanity. Selah.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hear my prayer, O YHWH, "" And give ear [to] my cry, "" Do not be silent to my tear, "" For I [am] a sojourner with You, "" A settler like all my fathers.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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