Psalm 39
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 an 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 shew: 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, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am 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 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and
be no more.
