Psalm 39

New King James Version

Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness

To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

39 I said, “I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my ^(A)tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
²^(B)I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
³My heart was hot within me;
While I was ^[a]musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:

⁴“Lord, ^(C)make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.
⁵Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but ^(D)vapor. Selah
⁶Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they ^[b]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.

⁷“And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My ^(E)hope is in You.
⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me ^(F)the reproach of the foolish.
⁹^(G)I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was ^(H)You who did it.
¹⁰^(I)Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
¹¹When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty ^(J)melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah

¹²“Hear my prayer, O Lord,
And give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, ^(K)as all my fathers were.
¹³^(L)Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and ^(M)am no more.”

Footnotes

Psalm 39:3 meditating
Psalm 39:6 make an uproar for nothing

Numbers 13:17-27

New King James Version

¹⁷Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to ^(A)the mountains, ¹⁸and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; ¹⁹whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; ²⁰whether the land is ^[a]rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. ^(B)Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

²¹So they went up and spied out the land ^(C)from the Wilderness of Zin as far as ^(D)Rehob, near the entrance of ^(E)Hamath. ²²And they went up through the South and came to ^(F)Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of ^(G)Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) ²³^(H)Then they came to the ^[b]Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. ²⁴The place was called the Valley of ^[c]Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there. ²⁵And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

²⁶Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at ^(I)Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly ^[d]flows with ^(J)milk and honey, ^(K)and this is its fruit.

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Footnotes

Numbers 13:20 fertile or barren
Numbers 13:23 Wadi
Numbers 13:24 Lit. Cluster
Numbers 13:27 Has an abundance of food

Luke 13:18-21

New King James Version

The Parable of the Mustard Seed^(A)

¹⁸^(B)Then He said, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? ¹⁹It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a ^[a]large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”

The Parable of the Leaven^(C)

²⁰And again He said, “To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? ²¹It is like ^[b]leaven, which a woman took and hid in three ^(D)measures^[c] of meal till it was all leavened.”