Highlights
- Watch the tongue not to sin vs 1
- We are under God’s grace and mercy vs 5 NIV – one’s life is but a breath. Be thankful for each breath;
- Vs 6, keep enough to live a modest lifestyle instead of heaps up wealth – life is short and uncertain; all under His grace and mercies.
Psalms 39:1-13
[1]I said, “I will be careful what I do and will not let my tongue make me sin; I will not say anything while evil people are near.”
[2]I kept quiet, not saying a word, not even about anything good! But my suffering only grew worse,
[3]and I was overcome with anxiety. The more I thought, the more troubled I became; I could not keep from asking:
[4]“Lord, how long will I live? When will I die? Tell me how soon my life will end.”
[5]How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,
[6]no more than a shadow. All they do is for nothing; they gather wealth, but don’t know who will get it.
[7]What, then, can I hope for, Lord? I put my hope in you.
[8]Save me from all my sins, and don’t let fools laugh at me.
[9]I will keep quiet, I will not say a word, for you are the one who made me suffer like this.
[10]Don’t punish me any more! I am about to die from your blows.
[11]You punish our sins by your rebukes, and like a moth you destroy what we love. Indeed we are no more than a puff of wind!
[12]Hear my prayer, Lord, and listen to my cry; come to my aid when I weep. Like all my ancestors I am only your guest for a little while.
[13]Leave me alone so that I may have some happiness before I go away and am no more.