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Psalm 39 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:2)</font> I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good <i>words</i>; and my grief was renewed.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:3)</font> My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:4)</font> O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:5)</font> Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence <i>is</i> as nothing before thee: nay, every man living <i>is</i> altogether vanity. Pause.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:6)</font> Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:7)</font> And now what <i>is</i> my expectation? <i>is it</i> not the Lord? and my ground <i>of hope</i> is with thee. Pause.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:8)</font> Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:9)</font> I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:10)</font> Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thine hand.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:11)</font> Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:12)</font> O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers <i>were</i>.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:13)</font> Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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 of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>