Psalms 39

Webster(i) 1 + 2 (39:1)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. 3 (39:2)I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 4 (39:3)My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue. 5 (39:4)LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 6 (39:5)Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 7 (39:6)Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. 8 (39:7)And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 9 (39:8)Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 10 (39:9)I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 11 (39:10)Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. 12 (39:11)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. 13 (39:12)Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 14 (39:13)O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.