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Psalms 39

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEBFor 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.”
    KJVTo the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 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.
  2. 2
    WEBI was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
    KJVI was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  3. 3
    WEBMy heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:
    KJVMy heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
  4. 4
    WEB“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
    KJVLORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
  5. 5
    WEBBehold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
    KJVBehold, 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.
  6. 6
    WEB“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
    KJVSurely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
  7. 7
    WEBNow, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
    KJVAnd now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
  8. 8
    WEBDeliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
    KJVDeliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
  9. 9
    WEBI was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
    KJVI was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
  10. 10
    WEBRemove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
    KJVRemove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
  11. 11
    WEBWhen you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
    KJVWhen thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
  12. 12
    WEB“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.
    KJVHear 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.
  13. 13
    WEBOh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”
    KJVO spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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