hbours did stand looking upon my trouble:
and my kinsmen stood afar off.

12 They also that sought after my life laid snares for me: and
they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and
imagined deceit all the day long.

13 As for me, I was like a deaf man, and heard not: and as one
that is dumb, who doth not open his mouth.

14 I became even as a man that heareth not: and in whose mouth
are no reproofs.

15 For in thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: thou shalt answer for
me, O Lord my God.

161 have required that they, even mine enemies, should not triumph
over me: for when my foot slipped, they rejoiced greatly against me.

17 And I, truly, am set in the plague: and my heaviness is ever
in my sight.

18 For I will confess my wickedness: and be sorry for my sin.

19 But mine enemies live, and are mighty: and they that hate me
wrongfully are many in number.

20 They also that reward evil for good are against me: because I
follow the thing that good is.

21 Forsake me not, O Lord my God: be not thou far from me.

22 Haste thee to help me: O Lord God of my salvation.

PSALM 39. _Dixi, Custodiam_.

I said, I will take heed to my ways: that I offend not in my tongue.

2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle: while the ungodly
is in my sight.

3 I held my tongue, and spake nothing: I kept silence, yea, even
from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.

4 My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire
kindled: and at the last I spake with my tongue;

5 Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I
may be certified how long I have to live.

6 Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long: and mine
age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man
living is altogether vanity.

7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in
vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

8 And now, Lord, what is my hope: truly my hope is even in thee.

9 Deliver me from all mine offences: and make me not a rebuke unto
the foolish.

10 I became dumb, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doing.

11 Take thy plague away from me: I am even consumed by the means
of thy heavy hand.

12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest
his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a
garment: every man therefore is but vanity.

13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears cons