With Firm Resolve I Held My Peace (EN 891)

EN 891 With Firm Resolve I Held My Peace

Ps.39.1

Versi Version 1

1

With firm resolve I held my peace

And spake not either bad or good,

Lest I should utter sinful thoughts

While wicked men before me stood.

2

While I was dumb my grief was stirred,

My heart grew hot with thought suppressed;

The while I mused the fire increased,

Then to the Lord I made request.

3

Make me, O Lord, to know my end,

Teach me the measure of my days,

That I may know how frail I am

And turn from pride and sinful ways.

4

My time is nothing in Thy sight,

Behold, my days are but a span;

Yea, truly, at his best estate,

A breath, a fleeting breath, is man.

5

Man’s life is passed in vain desire

If troubled years be spent for gain;

He knows not whose his wealth shall be,

And all his toil is but in vain.

6

And now, O Lord, what wait I for?

I have no hope except in Thee;

Let not ungodly men reproach,

From all transgressions set me free.

7

Because Thou didst it I was dumb,

I spoke no word of rash complaint;

Remove Thy stroke away from me,

Beneath Thy chastisement I faint.

8

When Thou for his iniquity

Rebukest and correctest man,

His beauty is consumed away;

How weak his strength, how vain his plan.

9

Lord, hear my prayer, regard my cry;

I weep; be Thou my Comforter.

I am a stranger here below,

A pilgrim as my fathers were.

10

O spare me, Lord, avert Thy wrath,

Deal gently with me, I implore,

That I may yet recover strength

Ere I go hence and be no more.

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