Psalms 38:1-9

¹(39) 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.

²I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed.

³My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

⁴O Lord, make me to know my end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

⁵Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before you: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

⁶Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

⁷And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with you. Pause.

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.

⁹I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me.