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| 1. | {To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.} |
| 2. | I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me. |
| 3. | I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
| 4. | My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue, |
| 5. | Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am. |
| 6. | Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah. |
| 7. | Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
| 8. | And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee. |
| 9. | Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| 10. | I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done it. |
| 11. | Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. |
| 12. | When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah. |
| 13. | Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers. |
| 14. | Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more. |