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Psalms 39:1-11
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To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, "I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me."
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I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; And my sorrow was stirred up.
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My heart was hot within me; While I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
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"Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am.
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Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
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Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gather them.
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"And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.
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Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
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I was mute, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did it.
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Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
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When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. Selah
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Psalms 39:1-11 Meaning and Commentary
To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, a Psalm of David. Some take Jeduthun to be the name of a musical instrument, as Jarchi, on which, and others the first word of a song, to the tune of which, this psalm was sung, as Aben Ezra; though it seems best, with Kimchi and others, to understand it as the name of the chief musician, to whom this psalm was sent to be made use of in public service; since Jeduthun was, with his sons, appointed by David to prophesy with harps and psalteries, and to give praise and thanks unto the Lord, 1 Chronicles 16:41; he is the same with Ethan {s}. The occasion of it is thought, by some, to be the rebellion of his son Absalom; so Theodoret thinks it was written when he fled from Absalom, and was cursed by Shimei; or rather it may be some sore affliction, which lay upon David for the chastisement of him; see Psalm 39:9; and the argument of the psalm seems to be much the same with that of the preceding one, as Kimchi observes.
{s} Vid. Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 513, 805.
{s} Vid. Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 513, 805.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.