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A Psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>I said, “I will guard my ways</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that I may not sin with my tongue;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will keep a muzzle on my mouth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as long as the wicked are in my presence.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>I was silent and still;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I held my peace to no avail;</span></span><br /><span class="text">my distress grew worse,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>my heart became hot within me.</span></span><br /><span class="text">While I mused, the fire burned;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">then I spoke with my tongue:</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>“<span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, let me know my end,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and what is the measure of my days;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let me know how fleeting my life is.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>You have made my days a few handbreadths,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Surely everyone stands as a mere breath.<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they heap up, and do not know who will gather.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>“And now, O Lord, what do I wait for?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">My hope is in you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Deliver me from all my transgressions.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Do not make me the scorn of the fool.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I am silent; I do not open my mouth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for it is you who have done it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Remove your stroke from me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I am worn down by the blows<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16593a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> of your hand.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>“You chastise mortals</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in punishment for sin,</span></span><br /><span class="text">consuming like a moth what is dear to them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">surely everyone is a mere breath.<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>“Hear my prayer, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and give ear to my cry;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">do not hold your peace at my tears.</span></span><br /><span class="text">For I am your passing guest,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">an alien, like all my forebears.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">before I depart and am no more.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 39:10">Psalm 39:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>hostility</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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