Psalms 39:7-13

7So, my Lord, what help can I hope to get? You are the only one that I can really trust!

8Save me from all my sins! Do not let fools insult me.

9I will not say anything more. I will not open my mouth, because it is you who have punished me!

10Please do not hurt me any more! You have already punished me enough, so that I am almost dead!

11When people do wrong things, you warn them and you punish them. You destroy their valuable things, like a moth eats cloth! Yes, our lives are only a breath! Selah.

12Lord, please hear my prayer. Listen to me when I call to you for help. Do not turn away from me when I weep. I need your help, like a foreign person who lives away from his home. I live on earth as a stranger, like all my ancestors did.

13Stop being angry with me, so that I can be happy again before I die.