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strkjv@Psalms:39:1 @To the chief Musician , even to Jeduthun Y@duwthuwn#, 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.
strkjv@Psalms:39:2 @ I was dumb with silence , I held my peace , even from good ; and my sorrow k@#eb# was stirred .
strkjv@Psalms:39:3 @ My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue ,
strkjv@Psalms:39:4 @ LORD Y@hovah#, make me to know mine end , and the measure of my days , what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
strkjv@Psalms:39:5 @ 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 .
strkjv@Psalms:39:6 @ 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.
strkjv@Psalms:39:7 @ And now, Lord , what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
strkjv@Psalms:39:8 @ Deliver me from all my transressions : make me not the reproach of the foolish .
strkjv@Psalms:39:9 @ I was dumb , I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it.
strkjv@Psalms:39:10 @ Remove # thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand .
strkjv@Psalms:39:11 @ 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 .
strkjv@Psalms:39:12 @ Hear my prayer , O LORD Y@hovah#, 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.
strkjv@Psalms:39:13 @ O spare me, that I may recover strength , before I go hence , and be no more.
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kjv@Psalms:39 > > RandyP : I have felt at times that it was best to keep my silence/bridle my tongue before the enemies of God that I not myself display to them a more sinful side of myself that might spill out unintended. By this I intend good but may well carry it too far as if I to be outright deaf and mute to the calling of God. The psalmist here in similar ill is prescribed a dosage of knowing his end, his frailty and the measurement of his days.
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