Testaments

Psalms - Chapter 39 - King James Version

  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,evenfrom good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  3. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:thenspake I with my tongue,
  4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what itis; thatI may know how frail Iam.
  5. Behold, thou hast made my daysasan handbreadth; and mine ageisas nothing before thee: verily every man at his best stateisaltogether vanity. Selah.
  6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth upriches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
  7. And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hopeisin 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 didstit.
  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 manisvanity. Selah.
  12. Hear my prayer, OLORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for Iama stranger with thee,anda sojourner, as all my fatherswere.
  13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.