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“1 ¶ <<To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.>> 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.” (Psalms 39:1-13 AV)
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