Psalms 39

1. “To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.” I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.”
   
2. I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; And my sorrow was stirred up.
   
3. My heart was hot within me; While I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
   
4. “LORD, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am.
   
5. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
   
6. Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gather them.
   
7. “And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.
   
8. Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
   
9. I was mute, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did it.
   
10. Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
    
11. When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. Selah
    
12. “Hear my prayer, O LORD, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
    
13. Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more.”