ULT PSA Chapter 39

39 For the chief musician; Jeduthun. psalm David.

1 I said, “Let me guard my ways

from sinning with my tongue.

Let me guard a muzzle for my mouth

while the wicked, is before me.”

2 I was mute, with silence;

I was silent from good,

and my pain was stirred up.

3 My heart became hot within me;

in my sighing, fire burned.

I spoke with my tongue:

4 “Make me know my end, Yahweh,

and the measure of my days, what it is.

May I know how transient I am.

5 Behold, you have given my days, as handbreadths,

and my lifetime, is as nothing before you.

Surely every man stands, as all vapor. Selah

6 Surely a man walks about as an image;

surely they make an uproar for vapor.

He heaps up and does not know

who will be gathering them.

7 And now, what do I wait for, Lord?

My hope, it, is for you.

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions;

do not make me the reproach of a fool.

9 I am mute; I do not open my mouth,

for you, you have done it.

10 Remove your plague from upon me;

from the blow of your hand, I, I am finished.

11 With rebukes on account of iniquity you discipline a man,

and you dissolve like a moth his desired thing.

Surely all mankind, is vapor. Selah

12 Hear my prayer, Yahweh,

and give ear to my cry for help.

Do not be deaf to my weeping,

for I, am a sojourner with you,

a foreigner like all my fathers.

13 Look away from me that I may be cheerful

before I go and I am no more.”