Psalms 38:2-14

²I 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.

³I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; And my grief was renewed.

⁴My heart grew hot within me, And a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

⁵O Lord, make me to know mine end, And the number of my days, what it is; That I may know what I lack.

⁶Behold, thou hast made my days old; And my existence is as nothing before thee: Nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

⁷Surely man walks in a shadow; Nay, he is disquieted in vain: He lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

⁸And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? And my ground of hope is with thee. Pause.

⁹Deliver me from all my transgressions: Thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.

¹⁰I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.

¹¹Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thy hand.

¹²Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, And thou makest his life to consume away like a spider’s web: Nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

¹³O Lord, hearken 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.

¹⁴Spare me, that I may be refreshed, Before I depart, and be no more.