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Psalms 39:6-13
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Psalms 39:6-13
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Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up, and do not know who will gather.
7
"And now, O Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
8
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool.
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I am silent; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.
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Remove your stroke from me; I am worn down by the blows of your hand.
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"You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. (Selah)
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"Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.
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Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more."
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[a].
Heb [hostility]
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.