Bible verse
I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
Psalm 39:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Psalm 39.
5 You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
6 Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
9 I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
10 Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
KJV
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
ASV
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.
ERV
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
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