Psalms 39:2
And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
In Context
1I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and listened to my supplication. 1
Cross References
Job 32:19And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine, bound up and ready to burst; or as a brazier's laboring bellows.
Psalms 38:13Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.
Isaiah 53:7And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: + 53:7 Acts 8:32,33 he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 39:2-7
Devout Reflections; Brevity and Vanity of Life. 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 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, 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. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a… Read the whole commentary →