Psalm 39

¹I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”†⇄ (20 connections)

²I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.†⇄ (29 connections)

³My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:†⇄ (14 connections)

⁴“LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.†⇄ (21 connections)

⁵Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.†⇄ (24 connections)

⁶“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.†⇄ (27 connections)

⁷Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.†⇄ (37 connections)

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.†⇄ (21 connections)

⁹I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.¶†⇄ (17 connections)

¹⁰Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.†⇄ (16 connections)

¹¹When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.†⇄ (15 connections)

¹²“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.¶†⇄ (21 connections)

¹³Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”† (3 connections)