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Week 5 · Tuesday · Psalm 39: Show Me My End

This psalm asks to know how fleeting life is, and it ends without resolution. Let it be honest for you today; not every prayer has to finish on a bright note.

verse 4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is. verse 5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Psalm 39:4–5BSB
And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
Psalm 39:7BSB
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Psalm 39:12BSB

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