1 To the chief Musician * h5329 h8764, even to Jeduthun * h3038, A Psalm * h4210 of David * h1732. I said * h559 h8804, I will take heed * h8104 h8799 to my ways * h1870, that I sin * h2398 h8800 not with my tongue * h3956: I will keep * h8104 h8799 my mouth * h6310 with a bridle * h4269, while the wicked * h7563 is before me. my mouth...: Heb. a bridle, or, muzzle for my mouth
2 I was dumb * h481 h8738 with silence * h1747, I held my peace * h2814 h8689, even from good * h2896; and my sorrow * h3511 was stirred * h5916 h8738. stirred: Heb. troubled
3 My heart * h3820 was hot * h2552 h8804 within * h7130 me, while I was musing * h1901 the fire * h784 burned * h1197 h8799: then * h227 spake * h1696 h8765 I with my tongue * h3956,
4 LORD * h3068, make me to know * h3045 h8685 mine end * h7093, and the measure * h4060 of my days * h3117, what it is; that I may know * h3045 h8799 how frail * h2310 I am . how...: or, what time I have here
5 Behold, thou hast made * h5414 h8804 my days * h3117 as an handbreadth * h2947; and mine age * h2465 is as nothing before thee: verily every * h3605 man * h120 at his best state * h5324 h8737 is altogether * h3605 vanity * h1892. Selah * h5542. at...: Heb. settled
6 Surely every man * h376 walketh * h1980 h8691 in a vain shew * h6754: surely they are disquieted * h1993 h8799 in vain * h1892: he heapeth up * h6651 h8799 riches , and knoweth * h3045 h8799 not who shall gather * h622 h8802 them. a vain...: Heb. an image
7 And now, Lord * h136, what wait * h6960 h8765 I for? my hope * h8431 is in thee.
8 Deliver * h5337 h8685 me from all my transgressions * h6588: make * h7760 h8799 me not the reproach * h2781 of the foolish * h5036.
9 I was dumb * h481 h8738, I opened * h6605 h8799 not my mouth * h6310; because thou didst * h6213 h8804 it .
10 Remove * h5493 thy stroke * h5061 away * h5493 h8685 from me: I am consumed * h3615 h8804 by the blow * h8409 of thine hand * h3027. blow: Heb. conflict
11 When thou with rebukes * h8433 dost correct * h3256 h8765 man * h376 for iniquity * h5771, thou makest his beauty * h2530 h8803 to consume away * h4529 h8686 like a moth * h6211: surely every man * h120 is vanity * h1892. Selah * h5542. his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away
12 Hear * h8085 h8798 my prayer * h8605, O LORD * h3068, and give ear * h238 h8685 unto my cry * h7775; hold not thy peace * h2790 h8799 at my tears * h1832: for I am a stranger * h1616 with thee, and a sojourner * h8453, as all my fathers * h1 were .
13 O spare * h8159 h8685 me, that I may recover strength * h1082 h8686, before I go hence * h3212 h8799, and be no more.