These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Psalm 39
Tanakh 13 verses
- 1 For the Leader, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of . I said: ‘I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, While the wicked is before me.’
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I was dumb with silence; I held my , had no comfort; And my pain was held in check.
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My waxed hot within me; While I was musing, the fire kindled; Then spoke I with my tongue:
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, make me to mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me how short-lived I am.
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- 5 Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; And mine age is as nothing before Thee; Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
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Surely man walketh as a mere semblance; Surely for vanity they are in turmoil; He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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1 Corinthians 7:31 Ecclesiastes 2:26 Luke 12:20-21 Ecclesiastes 5:14 Job 27:16-17 James 4:14 Ecclesiastes 4:7-8 Ecclesiastes 2:8 Psalm 127:2 Ecclesiastes 6:11-12 Ecclesiastes 12:13 Isaiah 55:2 Luke 12:29 1 Peter 5:7 James 5:3 Ecclesiastes 2:17-21 Luke 10:40-42 Proverbs 13:22 Ecclesiastes 12:8 Proverbs 27:24 Psalm 49:10-11 1 Peter 1:24 Ecclesiastes 1:14 Proverbs 23:5 -
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And now, , what wait I for? My , it is in Thee.
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- 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; Make me not the reproach of the base.
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I am dumb, I open not my mouth; Because Thou hast done it.
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Remove Thy stroke from off me; I am consumed by the blow of Thy hand.
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- 11 With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, And like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; Surely every man is vanity. Selah
- 12 Hear my prayer, O , and give ear unto my cry; Keep not silence at my tears; For I am a stranger with Thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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Look away from me, that I may take comfort, Before I go hence, and be no more.’
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