| Ps 39:1 | David's care of this thoughts. |
Ps 39:1
•EXPRESSION OF GOOD-REPRESSION OF EVIL
•WATCHFULNESS | ¶ To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said2, I will take heed to my ways, that I3 sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth4 with a bridle, while5 the wicked is before me. |
Ps 39:2
•SILENCE-SPEECH | I was6 dumb with silence, I held my peace, even7 from good; and my sorrow8 was stirred9. |
Ps 39:3
•MIND, CARNAL-SPIRITUAL | 10My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, |
| Ps 39:4 | The consideration of the brevity and vanity of life; |
| Ps 39:4 | LORD, make11 me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am12. |
Ps 39:5
•LIFE-DEATH | Behold,13 thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing14 before thee: verily15 every man at his best state16 is altogether vanity. Selah. |
Ps 39:6
•BUSINESS LIFE
•POVERTY-RICHES
•REST-UNREST | Surely every man walketh in a vain shew17: surely18 they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth19 up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
| Ps 39:7 | the reverence of God's judgments, |
Ps 39:7
•HOPE-DESPAIR | ¶ And now, Lord, what wait20 I for? my hope21 is in thee. |
| Ps 39:8 | Deliver22 me from all my transgressions: make23 me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| Ps 39:9 | 24I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. |
| Ps 39:10 | and prayer, are his bridles of impatience. |
| Ps 39:10 | ¶ Remove25 thy stroke away from me: I am consumed26 by the blow27 of thine hand. |
Ps 39:11
•BEAUTY-DISFIGUREMENT
•EMPTINESS-FULNESS
•UNCERTAINTIES-CERTAINTIES | When28 thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty29 to consume away like a moth: surely30 every man is vanity. Selah. |
Ps 39:12
•PILGRIMAGE, LIFE AS A
•TEARS | Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold31 not thy peace at my tears: for I am32 a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all33 my fathers were. |
| Ps 39:13 | O spare34 me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no35 more. |
