38:2. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me. 38:3. I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed. 38:4. My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out. 38:5. I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me. 38:6. Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. 38:7. Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things. 38:8. And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee. 38:9. Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool. 38:10. I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it. 38:11. Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes: 38:12. Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted. 38:13. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were. 38:14. O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more. Psalms Chapter 39 Expectans expectavi. Christ's coming, and redeeming mankind. 39:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. 39:2. With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me. 39:3. And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps. 39:4. And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord. 39:5. Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies. 39:6. Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number. 39:7. Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: 39:8. Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me 39:9. That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart. 39:10. I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it. 39:11. I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.