Psalm 39 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ {\b For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab I said, I will take heed to my ways,\par\tab That I sin not with my tongue:\par\tab I will keep my mouth with a bridle,\par\tab While the wicked is before me.

² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;\par\tab And my sorrow was stirred.

³ My heart was hot within me;\par\tab While I was musing the fire burned:\par\tab {\i Then} spake I with my tongue:

⁴ Jehovah, make me to know mine end,\par\tab And the measure of my days, what it is;\par\tab Let me know how frail I am.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days {\i as} handbreadths;\par\tab And my life-time is as nothing before thee:\par\tab Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {\i Selah

⁶ Surely every man walketh in a vain show;\par\tab Surely they are disquieted in vain:\par\tab He heapeth up {\i riches}, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

⁷ And now, Lord, what wait I for?\par\tab My hope is in thee.

⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions:\par\tab Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

⁹ I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;\par\tab Because thou didst it.

¹⁰ Remove thy stroke away from me:\par\tab I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

¹¹ When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,\par\tab Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:\par\tab Surely every man is vanity. {\i Selah\par

¹² Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;\par\tab Hold not thy peace at my tears:\par\tab For I am a stranger with thee,\par\tab A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

¹³ Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,\par\tab Before I go hence, and be no more.\par