Psalm 39:12-13

Easy-to-Read Version

¹² Lord, hear my prayer!
    Listen to the words I cry to you.
    Look at my tears.
I am only a traveler passing through this life with you.
    Like all my ancestors, I will live here only a short time.^[a]
13 Leave me alone^[b] and let me be happy
    before I am dead and gone.