Psalms 39

Brenton(i) 1 (38:1) For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence. 2 (38:2) I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed. 3 (38:3) My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue, 4 (38:4) O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack. 5 (38:5) Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause. 6 (38:6) Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them. 7 (38:7) And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with thee. Pause. 8 (38:8) Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish. 9 (38:9) I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me. 10 (38:10) Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thine hand. 11 (38:11) Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause. 12 (38:12) O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were. 13 (38:13) Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.