Psalm 39:title–12

To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

¹I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my ^atongue;

I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,

While the wicked are before me.”

^2bI was mute with silence,

I held my peace even from good;

And my sorrow was stirred up.

³My heart was hot within me;

While I was ¹musing, the fire burned.

Then I spoke with my tongue:

⁴“Lord, ^cmake me to know my end,

And what is the measure of my days,

That I may know how frail I am.

⁵Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,

And my age is as nothing before You;

Certainly every man at his best state is but ^dvapor.

Selah

⁶Surely every man walks about like a shadow;

Surely they ²busy themselves in vain;

He heaps up riches,

And does not know who will gather them.

⁷“And now, Lord, what do I wait for?

My ^ehope is in You.

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions;

Do not make me ^fthe reproach of the foolish.

^9gI was mute, I did not open my mouth,

Because it was ^hYou who did it.

¹⁰ⁱRemove Your plague from me;

I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.

¹¹When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,

You make his beauty ^jmelt away like a moth;

Surely every man is vapor.

Selah

¹²“Hear my prayer, O Lord,

And give ear to my cry;

Do not be silent at my tears;

For I am a stranger with You,

A sojourner, ^kas all my fathers were.