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Psalm 39  Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh, Make Me Know My End

For the choir director. For [a]Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

39 I said, “I will (A)keep watch over my ways
That I (B)may not sin with my tongue;
I will keep watch over (C)my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”
2 I was (D)mute with silence,
I even kept silent from speaking good,
And my anguish grew worse.
3 My (E)heart was hot within me,
While I meditated the fire was burning;
Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 “Yahweh, cause me to know (F)my end
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how (G)transient I am.
5 Behold, You have made (H)my days as [b]handbreadths,
And my (I)lifetime as nothing before You;
Surely every man, even standing firm, is [c]altogether (J)vanity. [d]Selah.
6 Surely every man (K)walks about as [e]a shadow;
Surely they make an (L)uproar in vain;
He (M)piles up riches and does not know who will gather them.

7 “And now, Lord, what do I hope in?
My (N)expectation is in You.
8 (O)Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Make me not the (P)reproach of the wicked fool.
9 I have become (Q)mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is (R)You who have done it.
10 (S)Remove Your plague from me;
Because of (T)the opposition of Your hand I am wasting away.
11 With (U)reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You (V)consume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely (W)every man is vanity. Selah.

12 “(X)Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and give ear to my cry for help;
Do not be silent (Y)at my tears;
For I am (Z)a sojourner with You,
A (AA)foreign resident like all my fathers.
13 (AB)Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may [f]smile again
Before I go and am no more.”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39 Title 1 Chr 16:41
  2. Psalm 39:5 A handbreadth was approx. 3 in. or 7.6 cm
  3. Psalm 39:5 Or mere breath
  4. Psalm 39:5 Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude
  5. Psalm 39:6 Lit an image
  6. Psalm 39:13 Or become cheerful

Cross references

  1. Psalm 39:1 : 1 Kin 2:4; 2 Kin 10:31; Ps 119:9
  2. Psalm 39:1 : Job 2:10; Ps 34:13; James 3:5-12
  3. Psalm 39:1 : Ps 141:3; James 3:2
  4. Psalm 39:2 : Ps 38:13
  5. Psalm 39:3 : Ps 32:4; Jer 20:9; Luke 24:32
  6. Psalm 39:4 : Job 6:11; Ps 90:12; 119:84
  7. Psalm 39:4 : Ps 78:39; 103:14
  8. Psalm 39:5 : Ps 89:47
  9. Psalm 39:5 : Ps 144:4
  10. Psalm 39:5 : Job 14:2; Ps 62:9; Eccl 6:12
  11. Psalm 39:6 : 1 Cor 7:31; James 1:10, 11; 1 Pet 1:24
  12. Psalm 39:6 : Ps 127:2; Eccl 5:17
  13. Psalm 39:6 : Ps 49:10; Eccl 2:26; 5:14; Luke 12:20
  14. Psalm 39:7 : Ps 38:15
  15. Psalm 39:8 : Ps 51:9, 14; 79:9
  16. Psalm 39:8 : Ps 44:13; 79:4; 119:22
  17. Psalm 39:9 : Ps 39:2
  18. Psalm 39:9 : 2 Sam 16:10; Job 2:10
  19. Psalm 39:10 : Job 9:34; 13:21
  20. Psalm 39:10 : Ps 32:4
  21. Psalm 39:11 : Ezek 5:15; 2 Pet 2:16
  22. Psalm 39:11 : Job 13:28; Ps 90:7; Is 50:9
  23. Psalm 39:11 : Ps 39:5
  24. Psalm 39:12 : Ps 102:1; 143:1
  25. Psalm 39:12 : 2 Kin 20:5; Ps 56:8
  26. Psalm 39:12 : Lev 25:23; 1 Chr 29:15; Ps 119:19; Heb 11:13; 1 Pet 2:11
  27. Psalm 39:12 : Gen 47:9
  28. Psalm 39:13 : Job 7:19; 10:20, 21; 14:6; Ps 102:24
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