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title: Psalm 39
slug: kjv/psalm-39
createdAt: 2024-08-21T03:03:02.810Z
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**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.

**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 shew: 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.