Psalms 38:7-14

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 thine 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.