Psalmen 39

1I vowed to watch my words, and sin not with my tongue, to put on my mouth a muzzle, the wicked were in my presence. 2I was silent and dumb, but my pain was stirred up. 3My heart grew hot within me; the fire was kindled, at last the words came to my tongue. 4‘Teach me, O Lord, my end, and the sum of my days what it is. me know how transient I am. 5See! My days you have made but a span, and my life is as nothing before you. It is but as a breath that everyone stands: Selah 6it is but in mere semblance we walk to and fro, and all our noise is for nothing. We heap up, and know not who will gather.’ 7And now, what wait I for, Lord? My hope is in you. 8From all my transgressions deliver me; me not the scorn of the fool. 9I am dumb, never opening my mouth, for this is your own doing. 10Remove your stroke from off me: by the might of your hand I am spent. 11When you rebuke someone to punish their sins, you consume, like a moth, what they tresure. is only a breath. Selah 12Hear my prayer, O Lord; to my cry for help. your peace at my tears. For I am but a guest of yours, a stranger visiting, like all my ancestors.