Psalms 39:2-13 ▼

2 Mute and silent before the wicked, I refrain from good things. But my sorrow increases;

3 my heart smolders within me. In my sighing a fire blazes up, and I break into speech:

4 LORD, let me know my end, the number of my days, that I may learn how frail I am.

5 To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah

6 Man goes about as a mere phantom; they hurry about, although in vain; he heaps up stores without knowing for whom.

7 And now, LORD, for what do I wait? You are my only hope.

8 From all my sins deliver me; let me not be the taunt of fools.

9 I am silent and do not open my mouth because you are the one who did this.

10 Take your plague away from me; I am ravaged by the touch of your hand.

11 You chastise man with rebukes for sin; like a moth you consume his treasures. Every man is but a breath. Selah

12 Listen to my prayer, LORD, hear my cry; do not be deaf to my weeping! For I am with you like a foreigner, a refugee, like my ancestors.

13 Turn your gaze from me, that I may smile before I depart to be no more.