n°19 / Psalms 39 :

1I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred.
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue,
4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am.
5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7And now, Lord, what wait I for ? my hope is in thee.
8Deliver me from all my transgressions : make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it.
10Remove thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth : surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry ; hold not thy peace at my tears : for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.