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Psalms 39
KJV
King James Version · 1611
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
1I 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.
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.
1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
1To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. --A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked <FI>is<Fi> before me.'
2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.
2With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.
2I was dumb <FI>with<Fi> silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
3My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned; Then spake I with my tongue:
3And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.
3Hot <FI>is<Fi> my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
4Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.
4And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.
4`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days--what it <FI>is<Fi> ,' I know how frail I <FI>am<Fi> .
5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
5Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah
5Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.
5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age <FI>is<Fi> as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity <FI>is<Fi> every man set up. Selah.
6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
6Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
6Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.
6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, <FI>in<Fi> vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
7And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.
7Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:
7And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope--it <FI>is<Fi> of Thee.
8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
8Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
8Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me
8From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.
9That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
9I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou--Thou hast done <FI>it<Fi> .
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
10I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.
10Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. [Selah
11I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.
11With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity <FI>is<Fi> every man. Selah.
12Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
12Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And <FI>to<Fi> my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I <FI>am<Fi> with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
13For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.
13Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
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14Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.
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15Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.
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16Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis well.
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