O LORD, AND GIVE EAR UNTO MY CRY .......

 

Psalm 39

King James Version (KJV)

1.   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.

2.   I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3.   My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4.   Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: 
      that I may know how frail I am.
5.   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. Selah.
6.   Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, 
      and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7.   And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 

^8.    Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9.   I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, 
      thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12. 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.
13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.