Psalms 39

Verse 1

WEB For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

KJV 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.

TSK A. M. 2970. B.C. 1034. Jeduthun: ps 62:1, ps 77:1, 1ch 16:41, 1ch 25:1-6; I said: ps 119:9, 1ki 2:4, 2ki 10:31, pr 4:26,27, heb 2:1; that I: ps 12:4, ps 73:8,9, ps 141:3, pr 18:21, pr 21:23; my mouth, etc: jas 1:26, jas 3:2-8; while: am 5:13, mic 7:5,6, col 4:5

Verse 2

WEB I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

KJV I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

TSK I was: ps 38:13,14, isa 53:7, mt 27:12-14; even: mt 7:6; my sorrow: job 32:19,20, ac 4:20

Verse 3

WEB My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

KJV My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

TSK My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,: jer 20:9, eze 3:14, lu 24:32

Verse 4

WEB “Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

KJV LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

TSK make: ps 90:12, ps 119:84, job 14:13

Verse 5

WEB Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

KJV 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.

TSK Behold: ps 90:4,5,9,10, ge 47:9, job 7:6, job 9:25,26, job 14:1,2, jas 4:14; as nothing: ps 89:47, 2pe 3:8; verily: ps 39:11, ps 62:9, ps 144:4, ec 1:2, ec 2:11, isa 40:17

Verse 6

WEB “Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

KJV Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

TSK a vain shew: 1co 7:31, jas 4:14; surely: ec 1:14, ec 2:17,18,20,21, ec 4:7,8, ec 6:11,12, ec 12:8,13, isa 55:2, lu 10:40-42, lu 12:20,21,29, 1pe 5:7; he heapeth: ps 49:10,11, job 27:16,17, pr 13:22, pr 23:5, pr 27:24, ec 2:8,18-21,26, ec 5:14, lu 12:20,21, jas 5:3

Verse 7

WEB Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

KJV And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

TSK what wait: ps 130:5,6, ge 49:18, lu 2:25; hope: ps 38:15, ps 119:81,166, job 13:15, ro 15:13

Verse 8

WEB Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

KJV Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

TSK Deliver: ps 25:11,18, ps 51:7-10,14, ps 65:3, ps 130:8, mic 7:19, mt 1:21, tit 2:14; make: ps 35:21, ps 44:13, ps 57:3, ps 79:4, ps 119:39, 2sa 16:7,8, joe 2:17,19, ro 2:23,24

Verse 9

WEB I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

KJV I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

TSK I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.: ps 38:13, le 10:3, 1sa 3:18, 2sa 16:10, job 1:21, job 2:10, job 40:4,5, da 4:35

Verse 10

WEB Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

KJV Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

TSK Remove: ps 25:16,17, 1sa 6:5, job 9:34, job 13:21; I am consumed: ps 38:3,4; blow: job 40:8

Verse 11

WEB When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

KJV 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.

TSK When: ps 38:1-8, ps 90:7-10, 1co 5:5, 1co 11:30-32, heb 12:6, re 3:19; his beauty, etc: ps 102:10,11, job 4:19, job 13:28, job 30:30, isa 50:9, ho 5:12

Verse 12

WEB “Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

KJV 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.

TSK hold: ps 56:8, ps 116:3, 2sa 16:12, 2ki 20:5, job 16:20, heb 5:7; for I am: ps 119:19,54, le 25:23, 1ch 29:15, 2co 5:6, heb 11:13, 1pe 1:17, 1pe 2:11; as all: ge 47:9

Verse 13

WEB Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”

KJV O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

TSK spare: job 10:20,21, job 14:5,6; be no: ge 5:24, ge 42:36, job 14:10-12