39 (X2). PRAYER AND PRAISE IN VIEW OF FUTURE BLESSING (Ps 24). (Extended Alternation and Introversion.)

X2 Y                     1-3 Silent mediation.  
                          1. 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.  
                          2. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.  
                          3. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,  
    Z                   4 Speech. Prayer.  
                          4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.  
      A                 5∼ The fading of life. "I".  
                          5∼. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee:  
        B               ∼5,6 Vanity of man. Selah.  
                          ∼5. verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.  
                          6. 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.  
          C D w         7∼ Departure. Prayer.
                          7∼. And now, Lord, what wait I for?  
                x       ∼7 Hope in Thee Prayer.
                          ∼7. my hope is in thee.  
                  E y   8∼ Supplication. Prayer.
                          8∼. Deliver me from all my transgressions:  
                      z ∼8 Deprecation. Prayer.
                          ∼8. make me not the reproach of the foolish.  
  Y                     9 Silent mediation.  
                          9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.  
    Z                   10∼ Speech. Prayer.  
                          10∼. Remove thy stroke away from me:  
      A                 ∼10 The fading of beauty. "I".  
                          ∼10. I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.  
        B               11 Vanity of man. Selah.  
                          11. 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.  
          C       E y   12∼ Supplication. Prayer.
                          12∼. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry;  
                      z ∼12∼ Deprecation. Prayer.
                          ∼12∼. hold not thy peace at my tears:  
            D   x       ∼12 Hope in Thee. Prayer.
                          ∼12. for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.  
              w         13 Departure. Prayer.
                          13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.