Psalms 39

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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.	1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.	2 I have waited expectantly for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,	3 And 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.
4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.	4 And 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.
5 Behold, 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.	5 Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.	6 You 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.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.	7 Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have perfected ears for me. Holocaust and sin offering, you did not require.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.	8 Then I said, “Behold, I draw near.” At the head of the book, it has been written of me:
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.	9 that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.	10 I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.	11 I 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.
12 Hear 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.	12 O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.	13 For 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.
	14 Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.
	15 Let 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.
	16 Let them bear their confusion all at once, who say to me, “Well, well.”
	17 Let all who seek you exult and rejoice over you. And let those who love your salvation always say, “May the Lord be magnified.”
	18 But 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.