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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.
1For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin 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 mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. 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 meditated, the fire burned. I spoke 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.
4“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me 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, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” 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.
6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
7Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,
7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
8I desired to do your will, O my God, and your law in the midst of my heart.
8Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me 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 mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did 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 your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
11But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually.
11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” 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.
12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
13Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me.
13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”