Psalm 39

1 I SAID, I will take heed and guard my ways, that I may sin not with my tongue; I will muzzle my mouth as with a bridle while the wicked are before me.2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace without profit and had no comfort away from good, while my distress was renewed.3 My heart was hot within me. While I was musing, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:4 Lord, make me to know my end and [to appreciate] the measure of my days--what it is; let me know and realize how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].5 Behold, You have made my days as [short as] handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Truly every man at his best is merely a breath! Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]!6 Surely every man walks to and fro--like a shadow in a pantomime; surely for futility and emptiness he is in turmoil; each one heaps up riches, not knowing who will gather them. 7 And now, Lord, what do I wait for and expect? My hope and expectation are in You.8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the scorn and reproach of the [self-confident] fool!9 I am dumb, I open not my mouth, for it is You Who has done it.10 Remove Your stroke away from me; I am consumed by the conflict and the blow of Your hand.11 When with rebukes You correct and chasten man for sin, You waste his beauty like a moth and what is dear to him consumes away; surely every man is a mere breath. Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]!12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not Your peace at my tears! For I am Your passing guest, a temporary resident, as all my fathers were.13 O look away from me and spare me, that I may recover cheerfulness and encouraging strength and know gladness before I go and am no more!

Psalm 40

1 I WAITED patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry.2 He drew me up out of a horrible pit [a pit of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings.3 And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord. 4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who makes the Lord his refuge and trust, and turns not to the proud or to followers of false gods.5 Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered.6 Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, nor have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear and obey [Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require.7 Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me;8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; yes, Your law is within my heart. 9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly [tidings of uprightness and right standing with God]. Behold, I have not restrained my lips, as You know, O Lord.10 I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart; I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not hid away Your steadfast love and Your truth from the great assembly. 11 Withhold not Your tender mercy from me, O Lord; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth continually preserve me!12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken such hold on me that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me and forsaken me.13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me!14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek and require my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil and delight in my hurt!15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame who say to me, Aha, aha!16 Let all those that seek and require You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified!17 [As for me] I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought and plans for me. You are my Help and my Deliverer. O my God, do not tarry!

Psalm 41

1 BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) is he who considers the weak and the poor; the Lord will deliver him in the time of evil and trouble.2 The Lord will protect him and keep him alive; he shall be called blessed in the land; and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.3 The Lord will sustain, refresh, and strengthen him on his bed of languishing; all his bed You [O Lord] will turn, change, and transform in his illness.4 I said, Lord, be merciful and gracious to me; heal my inner self, for I have sinned against You.5 My enemies speak evil of me, [saying], When will he die and his name perish?6 And when one comes to see me, he speaks falsehood and empty words, while his heart gathers mischievous gossip [against me]; when he goes away, he tells it abroad.7 All who hate me whisper together about me; against me do they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me].8 An evil disease, say they, is poured out upon him and cleaves fast to him; and now that he is bedfast, he will not rise up again.9 Even my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted (relied on and was confident), who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. 10 But You, O Lord, be merciful and gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.11 By this I know that You favor and delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.12 And as for me, You have upheld me in my integrity and set me in Your presence forever.13 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting [from this age to the next, and forever]! Amen and Amen (so be it).

YouVersion

Bible

My

Community

Mobile

Psalm 40:1-5

Psalm 39

Psalm 40

Psalm 41

Selected

Community Notes

My Notes

M'Cheyne One Year Reading Plan Info

Today - Day 1

Lots of Choices

Audio Bible (Faith Comes By Hearing)

Verse of the Day

Create New Note

Additional content

YouVersion

Bible

My

Community

Mobile

Psalm 40:1-5

Psalm 39

Psalm 40

Psalm 41

Achi

Achuar

Afrikaans

العربية

Waimaha

Batak Toba

български език

বাংলা

Biatah

Simalungun

Batak Karo

Cebuano

Church Slavonic

česky

Dansk

Deutsch

Dusun

English

Español

Euskara

فارسی

Suomi

Français

Guaraní

Ancient Greek

Hausa

עִבְרִית

Hiligaynon

Hrvatski

Magyar

Hawai`i Pidgin

Հայերեն

Iban

Bahasa Indonesia

Igbo

Italiano

日本語

ភាសាខ្មែរ

한국어

Lahu

Malagasy

te reo Māori

Li Niha

Nederlands

Norsk: nynorsk

Norsk: bokmål

Sotho, Northern

Polski

Penan

Potawatomi

Português

Quichua-Chimborazo

Română

Pyccкий

Toraja

Slovenčina

Shona

Somali

Shqip

српски

Svenska

Kiswahili

ภาษาไทย

Murut Timungon

Tagalog

Tswana

Tsonga

Türkçe

українська

اردو

Tiếng Việt