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Psalm 39:5
New Catholic Bible

5 [a]“O Lord, let me know my end
    and the number of days left to me;
    show me how fleeting my life is.

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  1. Psalm 39:5 The psalmist begs God to help him know and accept the brevity and vanity of life, a brevity and vanity stressed in other psalms (see Pss 62:10; 73:19; 90:10-11) and in Isa 40:17.
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