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PSALMS ยท Chapter 39
39:1 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.
39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and
my sorrow was stirred.
39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:
then spoke I with my tongue,
39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what
it is: that I may know how frail I am.
39:5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age
is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether
vanity. Selah.
39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted
in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you.
39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach
of the foolish.
39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
39:10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
your hand.
39:11 When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his
beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your
peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all
my fathers were.
39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go behind,
and be no more.
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