Psalm 39:1 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

¹ I said, I will look to my ways, lest with my tongue I sin: In sight of wicked men my mouth with bridle I'll keep in.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ I SAID, I will take heed and guard my ways, that I may sin not with my tongue; I will muzzle my mouth as with a bridle while the wicked are before me.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

¹ I promised I would watch my steps so as not to sin with my tongue; promised to keep my mouth shut as long as the wicked were in my presence.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.

Psalm 39:1 Cross References

Psalm 141:3

Set, Lord, a watch before my mouth, keep of my lips the door.

Psalm 119:9

By what means shall a young man learn his way to purify? If he according to thy word thereto attentive be.

Psalm 34:13

Thy lips refrain from speaking guile, and from ill words thy tongue.

Psalm 12:4

We'll with our tongue prevail, our lips are ours: who's lord o'er us?

Psalm 62:1

My soul with expectation depends on God indeed; My strength and my salvation doth from him alone proceed.

Psalm 77:1

Unto the Lord I with my voice, I unto God did cry; Ev'n with my voice, and unto me his ear he did apply.