Psalms 39:2-13

1. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

2. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

7. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

8. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

9. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

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