Psalms 38:2-13

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.

¹⁰Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand.

¹¹You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and you make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

¹²O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were.

¹³Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.