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Psalms 39

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1I said, “I will keep watch over my ways So that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep watch over my mouth as with a muzzle While the wicked are in my presence.” ✦ 2I was mute and silent, I refused to say even something good, And my pain was stirred up. ✦ 3My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue: ✦ 4“Lord, let me know my end, And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am. ✦ 5“Behold, You have made my days like hand widths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Certainly all mankind standing is a mere breath. Selah ✦ 6“Certainly every person walks around as a fleeting shadow; They certainly make an uproar for nothing; He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them. ✦ 7¶“And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You. ✦ 8“Save me from all my wrongdoings; Do not make me an object of reproach for the foolish. ✦ 9“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth, Because it is You who have done it. ✦ 10“Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing. ✦ 11“With rebukes You punish a person for wrongdoing; You consume like a moth what is precious to him; Certainly all mankind is mere breath! Selah ✦ 12¶“Hear my prayer, Lord, and listen to my cry for help; Do not be silent to my tears; For I am a stranger with You, One who lives abroad, like all my fathers. ✦ 13“Turn Your eyes away from me, that I may become cheerful again Before I depart and am no more.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 119 ·7Ps 38 ·5Eccl 2 ·4Ps 90 ·4Job 14 ·4Ps 25 ·3Job 13 ·32 Sam 16 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 39 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 39David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

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    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

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