---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 39
verse_count: 13
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 39, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 39

*David's care of his thoughts. To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.*

**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 handbreadth: and mine age is as nothing before thee; verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
**6** Surely every man walketh in a vain show; surely they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
**7** And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
**8** Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.
**9** I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; because thou didst chasten me.
**10** Remove thy stroke away from me, or I shall be consumed by the blow of thine hand.
**11** When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity. Selah.
**12** Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears; for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
**13** Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.