Psalms 39:2-13 ▼

2 <V 38:3>I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.

3 <V 38:4>My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up.

4 <V 38:5>I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.”

5 <V 38:6>Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man.

6 <V 38:7>So then, truly man passes by like an image; even so, he is disquieted in vain. He stores up, and he knows not for whom he will gather these things.

7 <V 38:8>And now, what is it that awaits me? Is it not the Lord? And my substance is with you.

8 <V 38:9>Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as reproach to the foolish.

9 <V 38:10>I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.

10 <V 38:11>Remove your scourges from me.

11 <V 38:12>I fall short at corrections from the strength of your hand. For you have chastised man for iniquity. And you have made his soul shrink away like a spider. Nevertheless, it is in vain that any man be disquieted.

12 <V 38:13>O Lord, heed my prayer and my supplication. Pay attention to my tears. Do not be silent. For I am a newcomer with you, and a sojourner, just as all my fathers were.

13 <V 38:14>Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.