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* Psalm 39
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
My heart was hot within me,
while I was musing the fire burned:
then spake I with my tongue,
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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Behold, THOU hast made my days as an handbreadth;
and mine age is as nothing before THEE:
verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted (anxious or worried) in vain:
he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in THEE.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because THOU didst it. Remove THY stroke away from me:
I am consumed by the blow of THINE hand.
When THOU with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, THOU makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity.
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Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not THY peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with THEE, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
(A stranger on this earth ...Heb. 11:13-16)
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.