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Psalms 39:3

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My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

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  1. Psalms 39:1

    I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

  2. Psalms 39:2

    I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

  3. Psalms 39:4

    Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

  4. Psalms 39:5

    Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.