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Psalm 39 Berean Standard Bible

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1 For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
1 Al Músico principal, á Jeduthún: Salmo de David. YO DIJE: Atenderé á mis caminos, para no pecar con mi lengua: guardaré mi boca con freno, en tanto que el impío fuere contra mí.
2 I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
2 Enmudecí con silencio, calléme aun respecto de lo bueno: y excitóse mi dolor.
3 My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
3 Enardecióse mi corazón dentro de mí; encendióse fuego en mi meditación, [y así] proferí con mi lengua:
4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
4 Hazme saber, Jehová, mi fin, y cuánta sea la medida de mis días; sepa yo cuánto [tengo de ser] del mundo.
5 You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
5 He aquí diste á mis días término corto, y mi edad es como nada delante de ti: ciertamente es completa vanidad todo hombre que vive. (Selah.)
6 Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
6 Ciertamente en tinieblas anda el hombre; ciertamente en vano se inquieta: junta, y no sabe quién lo allegará.
7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
7 Y ahora, Señor, ¿qué esperaré? Mi esperanza en ti está.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
8 Líbrame de todas mis rebeliones; no me pongas por escarnio del insensato.
9 I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
9 Enmudecí, no abrí mi boca; porque tú lo hiciste.
10 Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
10 Quita de sobre mí tu plaga; de la guerra de tu mano soy consumido.
11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
11 Con castigos sobre el pecado corriges al hombre, y haces consumirse como de polilla su grandeza: ciertamente vanidad es todo hombre. (Selah.)
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
12 Oye mi oración, oh Jehová, y escucha mi clamor: no calles á mis lágrimas; porque peregrino soy para contigo, y advenedizo, como todos mis padres.
13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
13 Déjame, y tomaré fuerzas, antes que vaya y perezca.
Cross references (13)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Proverbs 21:23; Psalm 141:3; James 1:26; Psalm 119:9; Micah 7:5–6
  2. 2 Matthew 27:12–14; Acts 4:20; Psalm 38:13–14; Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 7:6
  3. 3 Jeremiah 20:9; Luke 24:32; Ezekiel 3:14
  4. 4 Psalm 90:12; Psalm 103:14; Psalm 119:84; Job 14:13
  5. 5 Psalm 144:4; Psalm 89:47; Psalm 62:9; Psalm 90:9–10; Ecclesiastes 2:11
  6. 6 Luke 12:20–21; James 4:14; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Psalm 127:2; Ecclesiastes 12:13
  7. 7 Romans 15:13; Psalm 38:15; Psalm 119:81; Genesis 49:18; Psalm 119:166
  8. 8 Psalm 51:14; Psalm 44:13; Joel 2:17; Micah 7:19; Psalm 79:4
  9. 9 Job 2:10; 1 Samuel 3:18; Job 40:4–5; Daniel 4:35; 2 Samuel 16:10
  10. 10 Job 9:34; Job 13:21; Psalm 32:4; Psalm 25:16–17; Psalm 38:3–4
  11. 11 Job 13:28; Hebrews 12:6; Isaiah 50:9; Revelation 3:19; 1 Corinthians 11:30–32
  12. 12 1 Peter 2:11; Hebrews 11:13; 2 Kings 20:5; Leviticus 25:23; Psalm 116:3
  13. 13 Job 14:5–6; Job 10:20–21; Job 14:10–12; Job 7:19; Genesis 5:24

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XXXVIII)

    What doth this recollection of the Sabbath mean? What is this Sabbath? For it is with groaning that he "calls it to recollection." You have both heard already when the Psalm was read, and you will now hear it when we shall go over it, how great is his groaning, his mourning, his tears, his misery.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 39:11 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book VII, Chapters X–XV)

    … feed upon me; nor shall thou convert me, like the food of thy flesh, into thee, but thou shall be converted into me." And I learned that Thou for iniquity dost correct man, and Thou dost make my soul to consume away like a spider. And I said, "Is Truth, therefore, nothing because it is neither diffused through space, finite, …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 39:12 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXIV)

    "For I am a stranger," saith he, "and a sojourner, as all my fathers were." For this man, and all that are like him, let pass them that had sinned, and thought of those who had approved themselves.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 39:5 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XI, Chapters XXII–XXV)

    This is my hope; for this do I live, that I may contemplate the delights of the Lord. Behold, Thou hast made my days old, and they pass away, and in what manner I know not.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)