Fits tune: Living Lord
(\'Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us\')
Psalm 39
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I said, I will
Take heed to my ways
That my tongue not sin
All my days
I will my mouth with bridle keep
While wicked are now before me
I too dumb with a silence was
Help, me see
I held my peace
Even from the good
My sorrow was stirred
Good I should
Have done, and not held back from it
My heart was hot in me, it burned
Then I did speak out with my tongue
Thus I turned
I said, Lord me
Make me know my end
Measure of my days
Wisdom send
Show me my frailty, briefest days
As a hand-breath they are, a span
My age nothing before you is
You know man[kind]
Truly each one
At best state is vain
Walks in vain show does
All again
Gathering riches quick they do
Knowing not who after them be
To take their place, their goods to gain
They not see
Hear Lord, my prayer
Give ear to my cry
Look, view now my tears
Be you nigh
O spare me, grant me now your strength
I trust you do me good, me keep
Before this brief life ends, do so
Guard your sheep