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To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.

1.I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth^39-1 with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

2.I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred^39-2.

3.My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

4.LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how^39-3 frail I am.

5.Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at^39-4 his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

6.Surely every man walketh in a vain^39-5 shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

7.And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

8.Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

9.I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

10.Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow^39-6 of thine hand.

11.When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his^39-7 beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

12.Hear 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.

13.O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalm 39

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