Psalm 39:1

Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

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

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

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

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

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

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.