Psalms 39:1-10 ▼

1 TO THE OVERSEER. FOR JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have said, “I observe my ways, || Against sinning with my tongue, || I keep a curb for my mouth, || While the wicked [is] before me.”

2 I was mute [with] silence, || I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

3 My heart [is] hot within me, || In my meditating the fire burns, || I have spoken with my tongue.

4 “Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, || And the measure of my days—what it [is],” || I know how frail I [am].

5 Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.

6 Only, each habitually walks in an image, || Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, || He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.

7 And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions, || Do not make me a reproach of the fool.

9 I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, || Because You have done [it].

10 Turn aside Your stroke from off me, || From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.