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Psalms 39
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1(40) For the end, a Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and listened to my supplication.
1I 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.
2And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.
2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3And he put a new song into my mouth, [even] a hymn to our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4Blessed [is] the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and [who] has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.
4Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
5O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke [of them]: they exceeded number.
5Behold, 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.
6Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and [sacrifice] for sin you did not require.
6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,
7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8I desired to do your will, O my God, and your law in the midst of my heart.
8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, you know my righteousness.
9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation.
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually.
11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me.
12Hear 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.
13Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me.
13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.