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Tahiliym 39

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39:1

Book I: The Muzzle Protocol and the Knowledge of the End

To the chief Musician, even to Yaduthun, A Psalm of Dawid. 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.
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The Stirring of Sorrow

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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The Burning Heart

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
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The Petition for Chronological Perspective

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
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The Vanity of the Mortal State

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.
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The Disquiet of the Earthly Matrix

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.
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The Anchor of Hope

And now, Adun, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
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The Deliverance from Reproach

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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The Silence of Submission

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
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The Removal of the Stroke

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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The Consumption of Beauty

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.
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The Sojourner Protocol

Hear my prayer, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, 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.
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The Plea for Strength

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.