PSALMS - Chapter 39

A Psalm of David

I said, "I will guard my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked are before me." I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred up. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned.

Then I spoke with my tongue: "YAHWEH, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. Indeed, you have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before you; certainly every man at his best state is but vapor." Selah

Surely every man walks about like a shadow; surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

"And now, Master, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of the foolish. I was mute, I did not open my mouth, because it was you who did it. Remove your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of your hand. When with rebukes you correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth; surely every man is vapor." Selah

"Hear my prayer, O YAHWEH, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with you, a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Remove your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, before I go away and am no more."

Chapter 40

A Psalm of David

I waited patiently for YAHWEH; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth—Praise to our Elohim; many will see it and fear, and will trust in YAHWEH.

Blessed is that man who makes YAHWEH his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Many, O YAHWEH my Elohim, are your wonderful works which you have done; and your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to you in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears you have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering you did not require.

Then I said, "Behold, I come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do your will, O my Elohim, and your law is within my heart."

I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness in the great assembly; indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O YAHWEH, you yourself know. I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Do not withhold your tender mercies from me, O YAHWEH; let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.

Be pleased, O YAHWEH, to deliver me; O YAHWEH, make haste to help me! Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion who seek to destroy my life; let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil. Let them be confounded because of their shame, who say to me, "Aha, aha!"

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let such as love your salvation say continually, "The YAHWEH be magnified!"

But I am poor and needy; yet YAHWEH thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my Elohim.

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HalleluYah!