Psalms 38 — parallel

38:1

For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun.

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38:2

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.

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38:3

I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed.

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38:4

My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

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38:5

O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

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38:6

Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before thee: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. Pause.

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38:7

Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

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38:8

And now what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with thee. Pause.

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38:9

Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.

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