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A Psalm of David.<p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext">2</span>I said: ‘I will take heed to my ways,</div><div class="po2">That I sin not with my tongue;</div><div class="po2">I will keep a curb upon my mouth,</div><div class="po2">While the wicked is before me.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-2.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort;</div><div class="po2">And my pain was held in check.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-3.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My heart waxed hot within me;</div><div class="po2">While I was musing, the fire kindled;</div><div class="po2">Then spoke I with my tongue:</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-4.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>‘LORD, make me to know mine end,</div><div class="po2">And the measure of my days, what it is;</div><div class="po2">Let me know how short-lived I am.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-5.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths;</div><div class="po2">And mine age is as nothing before Thee;</div><div class="po2">Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.<br><div align="right">Selah</div></div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-6.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Surely man walketh as a mere semblance;</div><div class="po2">Surely for vanity they are in turmoil;</div><div class="po2">He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-7.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And now, Lord, what wait I for?</div><div class="po2">My hope, it is in Thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-8.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Deliver me from all my transgressions;</div><div class="po2">Make me not the reproach of the base.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-9.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am dumb, I open not my mouth;</div><div class="po2">Because Thou hast done it.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-10.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Remove Thy stroke from off me;</div><div class="po2">I am consumed by the blow of Thy hand.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-11.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity,</div><div class="po2">And like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away;</div><div class="po2">Surely every man is vanity.<br><div align="right">Selah</div></div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-12.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry;</div><div class="po2">Keep not silence at my tears;</div><div class="po2">For I am a stranger with Thee,</div><div class="po2">A sojourner, as all my fathers were.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-13.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Look away from me, that I may take comfort,</div><div class="po2">Before I go hence, and be no more.’</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/38.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 38"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 38" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/40.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 40"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 40" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top 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