Tune: Buckland
(\'Loving Shepherd of thy sheep\')
Psalm 39 v.4-7
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Lord, make me to know my end
And throughout life to me tend
And the measure of my days
Keep within my sight always
So that I may know how frail
I am, but your strength prevail
Behold, you my days have made
Short as a hand\'s span arrayed
My age is as nought before
You who live for evermore
Truly each person at best
State is vanity professed
Surely man lives, gives vain show
As a vapour, as shadow
Surely they are disquieted
In vain, in a fragile stead
They make uproar for nothing
Gather riches, everything
But know not to whom they shall
Pass on to, they cannot tell
And now, Lord, what wait I for?
My hope is in you, \'tis sure
Mankind so small, God so great
I shall trust Him, on Him wait