39
Psalm 39 · Book One
For the choirmaster.
The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible
For the choirmaster
About this psalm
It begins with a man deciding to say nothing at all, in case he says the wrong thing — and the silence makes it worse, until he speaks. What comes out is about how short life is: LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. He calls himself a stranger and a sojourner, as all his fathers were.
Read it when you have been reminded how little time there is.
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Selah
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.7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.8Deliver me from all my transgressions:make me not the reproach of the foolish.9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;because thou didst it.10Remove thy stroke away from me:I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.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
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.13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.Press a verse to light it · again for the pen · King James
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