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Psalms Chapter 39

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David mourns the wicked who will be destroyed and his own sins that he has committed. He asks God to judge them and to show his own righteousness. The psalmist reflects on the fairness of God's judgment and his own need for mercy.

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(1) To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, 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.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 62:1Psalms 77:1I Chronicles 16:41I Chronicles 25:1I Chronicles 25:2I Chronicles 25:3I Chronicles 25:4I Chronicles 25:5I Chronicles 25:6Psalms 119:9I Kings 2:4II Kings 10:31

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I Chronicles 25:3Psalms 62:1Psalms 77:1

(2) I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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Psalms 38:13Psalms 38:14Isaiah 53:7Matthew 27:12Matthew 27:13Matthew 27:14Matthew 7:6Job 32:19Job 32:20Acts 4:20

(3) My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
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Jeremiah 20:9Ezekiel 3:14Luke 24:32

(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.
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Psalms 90:12Psalms 119:84Job 14:13

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Jeremiah 30:11Jeremiah 46:28II Corinthians 10:13

(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.
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Psalms 90:4Psalms 90:5Psalms 90:9Psalms 90:10Genesis 47:9Job 7:6Job 9:25Job 9:26Job 14:1Job 14:2James 4:14Psalms 89:47

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Isaiah 40:17John 5:19John 16:23Psalms 62:9Ecclesiastes 1:2

(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.
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I Corinthians 7:31James 4:14Ecclesiastes 1:14Ecclesiastes 2:17Ecclesiastes 2:18Ecclesiastes 2:20Ecclesiastes 2:21Ecclesiastes 4:7Ecclesiastes 4:8Ecclesiastes 6:11Ecclesiastes 6:12Ecclesiastes 12:8

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Isaiah 49:4Jeremiah 44:25Micah 2:12I Samuel 25:21Proverbs 1:17Proverbs 10:9

(7) And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
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Psalms 130:5Psalms 130:6Genesis 49:18Luke 2:25Psalms 38:15Psalms 119:81Psalms 119:166Job 13:15Romans 15:13

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Romans 8:24Psalms 130:5I Corinthians 9:10

(8) Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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Psalms 25:11Psalms 25:18Psalms 51:7Psalms 51:8Psalms 51:9Psalms 51:10Psalms 51:14Psalms 65:3Psalms 130:8Micah 7:19Matthew 1:21Titus 2:14

(9) I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
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Psalms 38:13Leviticus 10:3I Samuel 3:18II Samuel 16:10Job 1:21Job 2:10Job 40:4Job 40:5Daniel 4:35

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Ezekiel 33:22I Samuel 15:19Isaiah 57:9

(10) Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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Psalms 25:16Psalms 25:17I Samuel 6:5Job 9:34Job 13:21Psalms 38:3Psalms 38:4Job 40:8

(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.
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Psalms 38:1Psalms 38:2Psalms 38:3Psalms 38:4Psalms 38:5Psalms 38:6Psalms 38:7Psalms 38:8Psalms 90:7Psalms 90:8Psalms 90:9Psalms 90:10

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Psalms 62:9Jeremiah 44:25Ezekiel 33:8Ezekiel 33:13Hosea 12:11Psalms 32:5

(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.
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Psalms 56:8Psalms 116:3II Samuel 16:12II Kings 20:5Job 16:20Hebrews 5:7Psalms 119:19Psalms 119:54Leviticus 25:23I Chronicles 29:15II Corinthians 5:6Hebrews 11:13

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Leviticus 25:47Psalms 17:1I Kings 8:28II Chronicles 6:19Psalms 88:2Psalms 102:1

(13) O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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Job 10:20Job 10:21Job 14:5Job 14:6Genesis 5:24Genesis 42:36Job 14:10Job 14:11Job 14:12

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