Psalm 39

²³He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.

³Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

²⁶If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

⁹How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

⁵Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

⁶For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

¹³Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

¹²And when He was accused by the chief priests and elders, He gave no answer.

¹³Then Pilate asked Him, “Do You not hear how many charges they are bringing against You?”

²⁰For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

¹³But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

¹⁴I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

⁶Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

¹⁹Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.

²⁰I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.

⁹If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

³²They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

¹⁴So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord upon me.

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

¹⁴For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

⁸⁴How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?

¹³If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

⁴Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

⁴⁷Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

⁹Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

⁹For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

¹⁰The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

¹¹Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

¹¹You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

²⁰But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

²¹This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”

¹⁴You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

²⁶To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

²In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

¹³When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

³¹and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

¹³Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁵I wait for You, O Lord; You will answer, O Lord my God.

⁸¹My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

¹⁸I await Your salvation, O Lord.

¹⁶⁶I wait for Your salvation, O Lord, and I carry out Your commandments.

¹⁵Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

¹⁴Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

¹³You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

¹⁷Let the priests who minister before the Lord weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O Lord, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

¹⁹He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

⁴We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

¹⁹And the Lord answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

¹⁰“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

¹⁸So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the Lord,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”

⁴“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

⁵I have spoken once, but I have no answer—twice, but I have nothing to add.”

³⁵All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

¹⁰But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the Lord told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”

²¹saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

³⁴Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.

²¹Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

⁴For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

¹⁶Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

¹⁷The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.

³There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

⁴For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

⁸Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

²⁸So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

⁶For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

⁹Surely the Lord God helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.

¹⁹Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

³⁰That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

³¹Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

⁵hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

¹¹Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

¹³All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

⁵“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the Lord.

²³The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

³The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

⁹“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

⁵Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

⁶look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

²⁰Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

²¹before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

¹⁰But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

¹¹As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

¹⁹Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

²⁴Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

³⁶Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”