THE BOOKE OF PSALMES. (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV

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Psalms Chapter 39 Original 1611 KJV Bible Scan

CHAP. XXXIX.

1 Dauids care of his thoughts, 4 the consideration of the breuity and vanitie of life, 7 the reuerence of Gods iudgements, 10 and prayer, are his bridles of impatiencie.

¹ [To the chiefe Musician, euen to Ieduthun, A Psalme of Dauid.] I sayd, I will take heede to my waies, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.¹

² I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred.²

³ My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue.

⁴ Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am.⁴

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.⁵

⁶ Surely euery man walketh in a vaine shew: surely they are disquieted in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.⁶

⁷ And now Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

⁸ Deliuer me from all my transgressions: make mee not the reproch of the foolish.

⁹ I was dumbe, I opened not my mouth; because thou diddest it.

¹⁰ Remooue thy stroke away from mee: I am consumed by the blowe of thine hand.¹⁰

¹¹ When thou with rebukes doest correct man for iniquitie, thou makest his beautie to consume away like a moth: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.¹¹

¹² Heare my prayer, O Lord, and giue eare vnto my crie, hold not thy peace at my teares: for I am a straunger with thee, and a soiourner, as all my fathers were.¹²

¹³ O spare me, that I may recouer strength: before I goe hence, and be no more.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Psalms Chapter 39

¹ Heb. a bridle, or mousell for my mouth.
² Heb. troubled.
⁴ Or, what time I haue here.
⁵ Heb. setled. , Psal.62.9. & 144.4.
⁶ Hebr. image.
¹⁰ Heb. conflict.
¹¹ Heb. that which is to be desired in him, to melt away.
¹² Leuit.25. 23. 1.Chron. 29.15. Psal.119.19. Heb.11.13. 1.Pet. 2.11.

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