Psalms 39

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.

²I have waited expectantly for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.

³And he heard my prayers and he led me out of the pit of misery and the quagmire. And he stationed my feet upon a rock, and he directed my steps.

⁴And he sent a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many will see, and they will fear; and they will hope in the Lord.

⁵Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.

⁶You have accomplished your many wonders, O Lord my God, and there is no one similar to you in your thoughts. I have announced and I have spoken: they are multiplied beyond number.

⁷Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have perfected ears for me. Holocaust and sin offering, you did not require.

⁸Then I said, “Behold, I draw near.” At the head of the book, it has been written of me:

⁹that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.

¹⁰I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it.

¹¹I have not concealed your justice within my heart. I have spoken your truth and your salvation. I have not concealed your mercy and your truth from a great assembly.

¹²O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.

¹³For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.

¹⁴Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.

¹⁵Let them together be confounded and awed, who seek after my soul to steal it away. Let them be turned back and be in awe, who wish evils upon me.

¹⁶Let them bear their confusion all at once, who say to me, “Well, well.”

¹⁷Let all who seek you exult and rejoice over you. And let those who love your salvation always say, “May the Lord be magnified.”

¹⁸But I am a beggar and poor. The Lord has been concerned about me. You are my helper and my protector. My God, do not delay.

Psalms 39

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.

²I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

³My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I 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.

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.

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.

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

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

⁹I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

¹⁰Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

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.

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.

¹³O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.