Psalms 39Book 19 of 66 · 13 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. I said, “I will guard my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked are before me.”
  2. I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred up.
  3. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
  4. “LORD, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am.
  5. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
  6. Surely every man walks about like a shadow; surely they busy themselves in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.
  7. “And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.
  8. Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
  9. I was mute, I did not open my mouth, because it was You who did it.
  10. Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
  11. When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; surely every man is vapor. Selah
  12. “Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  13. Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, before I go away and am no more.”