39 lines
1.3 KiB
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39 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 39
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1 I said, “I will guard my ways,
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Lest I sin with my tongue;
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I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
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While the wicked are before me.”
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2 I was mute with silence,
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I held my peace even from good;
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And my sorrow was stirred up.
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3 My heart was hot within me;
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While I was musing, the fire burned.
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Then I spoke with my tongue:
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4 “Lord, make me to know my end,
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And what is the measure of my days,
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That I may know how frail I am.
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5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
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And my age is as nothing before You;
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Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
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6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
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Surely they busy themselves in vain;
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He heaps up riches,
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And does not know who will gather them.
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7 “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
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My hope is in You.
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8 Deliver me from all my transgressions;
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Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
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9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
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Because it was You who did it.
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10 Remove Your plague from me;
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I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
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11 When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
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You make his beauty melt away like a moth;
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Surely every man is vapor. Selah
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12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
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And give ear to my cry;
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Do not be silent at my tears;
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For I am a stranger with You,
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A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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13 Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
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Before I go away and am no more.” |