Psalms:38:15: For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Psalms:38:16: For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms:38:17: For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Psalms:38:18: For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms:38:19: But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Psalms:38:20: They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
Psalms:38:21: Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Psalms:38:22: Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Chapter 39
Psalms:39:1: I 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.
Psalms:39:2: I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Psalms:39:3: My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Psalms:39:4: LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Psalms:39:5: Behold, 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.
Psalms:39:6: Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms:39:7: And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psalms:39:8: Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms:39:9: I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Psalms:39:10: Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Psalms:39:11: When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms:39:12: Hear 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.
Psalms:39:13: O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Chapter 40
Psalms:40:1: I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Psalms:40:2: He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psalms:40:3: And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
Psalms:40:4: Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Psalms:40:5: Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
