Psalm 39:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵You have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath.Selah
⁶    Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
    they heap up, and do not know who will gather.

⁷“And now, O Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in you.

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