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Psalms 39

39
The Vanity of Life
1For the leader, for Jeduthun.#1 Chr 16:41; Ps 62:1; 77:1. A psalm of David.
I
2I said, “I will watch my ways,
lest I sin with my tongue;
I will keep a muzzle on my mouth.”
3Mute and silent before the wicked,
I refrain from good things.
But my sorrow increases;
4my heart smolders within me.#Jer 20:9.
In my sighing a fire blazes up,
and I break into speech:
II
5Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days,
that I may learn how frail I am.
6To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days;
indeed, my life is as nothing before you.
Every man is but a breath.#Ps 62:10; 90:9–10; 144:4; Jb 7:6, 16; 14:1, 5; Eccl 6:12; Wis 2:5.
Selah
III
7Man goes about as a mere phantom;
they hurry about, although in vain;
he heaps up stores without knowing for whom.
8And now, Lord, for what do I wait?
You are my only hope.
9From all my sins deliver me;
let me not be the taunt of fools.
10I am silent and do not open my mouth
because you are the one who did this.
11Take your plague away from me;
I am ravaged by the touch of your hand.
12You chastise man with rebukes for sin;
like a moth you consume his treasures.
Every man is but a breath.
Selah
13Listen to my prayer, Lord, hear my cry;
do not be deaf to my weeping!
For I am with you like a foreigner,
a refugee, like my ancestors.#Ps 119:19; Gn 23:4; Heb 11:13; 1 Pt 2:11.
14Turn your gaze from me, that I may smile
before I depart to be no more.

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