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Psalms 39
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1For the end, a Psalm of David.
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.
2I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.
2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3And 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.
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4And 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.
4Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
5Blessed [is] the man whose hope is the name of the Lord, and [who] has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.
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.
6O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke [of them]: they exceeded number.
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.
7Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me: whole-burnt-offering and [sacrifice] for sin thou didst not require.
7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,
8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.
9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, thou knowest my righteousness.
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11I have not hid thy truth within my heart, and I have declared thy salvation; I have not hid thy mercy and thy truth from the great congregation.
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.
12But thou, Lord, remove not thy compassion far from me; thy mercy and thy truth have helped me continually.
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.
13For 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.
13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.