Psalms 39

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue.

I was mute with silence.

My heart was hot within me.

“Yahweh, show me my end,

Behold, you have made my days hand widths.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for?

Deliver me from all my transgressions.

I was mute.

Remove your scourge away from me.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,