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Psalm 39:9-11
New English Translation
Psalm 39:9-11
New English Translation
9 I am silent and cannot open my mouth
because of what you have done.[a]
10 Please stop wounding me.[b]
You have almost beaten me to death.[c]
11 You severely discipline people for their sins;[d]
like a moth you slowly devour their strength.[e]
Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:9 tn Heb “because you acted.” The psalmist has in mind God’s disciplinary measures (see vv. 10-13).
- Psalm 39:10 tn Heb “remove from upon me your wound.”
- Psalm 39:10 tn Heb “from the hostility of your hand I have come to an end.”
- Psalm 39:11 tn “with punishments on account of sin you discipline a man.”
- Psalm 39:11 tc Heb “you cause to dissolve, like a moth, his desired [thing].” The translation assumes an emendation of חֲמוּדוֹ (khamudo, “his desirable [thing]”) to חֶמְדוֹ (khemdo, “his loveliness” [or “beauty”]), a reading that is supported by a few medieval Hebrew mss.
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