Psalm 39:4-13

New King James Version

⁴ “Lord, ^(A)make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.
⁵ Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but ^(B)vapor. Selah
⁶ Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they ^[a]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.

⁷ “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My ^(C)hope is in You.
⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me ^(D)the reproach of the foolish.
^9 (E)I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was ^(F)You who did it.
^10 (G)Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
¹¹ When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty ^(H)melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah

¹² “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
And give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, ^(I)as all my fathers were.
^13 (J)Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and ^(K)am no more.”