Psalms 39

1For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”Cross-references: 1Ki 2:4 · 2Ki 10:31 · 1Chr 16:41 · 1Chr 25:1 · Job 2:10 · Ps 12:4 · +15 more

2I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.Cross-references: Job 32:19 · Ps 38:13 · Isa 53:7 · Matt 7:6 · Matt 27:12 · Acts 4:20

3My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:Cross-references: Jer 20:9 · Ezek 3:14 · Luke 24:32

4“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.Cross-references: Job 14:13 · Ps 90:12 · Ps 103:14 · Ps 119:84

5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.Cross-references: Gen 47:9 · Job 7:6 · Job 9:25 · Job 14:1 · Ps 39:11 · Ps 62:9 · +9 more

6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.Cross-references: Job 27:16 · Ps 49:10 · Ps 127:2 · Prov 13:22 · Prov 23:5 · Prov 27:24 · +18 more

7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · Job 13:15 · Ps 38:15 · Ps 119:81 · Ps 119:166 · Ps 130:5 · +2 more

8Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.Cross-references: 2Sam 16:7 · Ps 25:11 · Ps 25:18 · Ps 35:21 · Ps 44:13 · Ps 51:7 · +12 more

9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · 1Sam 3:18 · 2Sam 16:10 · Job 1:21 · Job 2:10 · Job 40:4 · +2 more

10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.Cross-references: 1Sam 6:5 · Job 9:34 · Job 13:21 · Job 40:8 · Ps 25:16 · Ps 32:4 · +1 more

11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.Cross-references: Job 4:19 · Job 13:28 · Job 30:30 · Ps 38:1 · Ps 90:7 · Ps 102:10 · +7 more

12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.Cross-references: Gen 47:9 · Lev 25:23 · 2Sam 16:12 · 2Ki 20:5 · 1Chr 29:15 · Job 16:20 · +10 more

13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”Cross-references: Gen 5:24 · Gen 42:36 · Job 7:19 · Job 10:20 · Job 14:5 · Job 14:10