To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, a psalm of David
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📚✭✭I said, “I will watchmy ways, so that I
do not sin with my tongue.
I will keep a muzzle
on my mouth,
while the wicked are before me”.
2 📚✭I was bound to silence.
I kept quiet, even
from good;
and my sorrow was stirred.
3 📚My heart was hot within me;
while I was musing,
the fire burned.
Then I spoke with
my tongue✭.
4 📚✭LORD, make me know
my life’s end,
and what the number
of my days is,
so that I may know
how frail I am.
5 📚See, you have made my days
like a hand breadth,
and my age is as nothing
before you.
Truly every man in his best state is
altogether vanity. Selah
6 📚Surely every man walks
about like a shadow.
Surely they are agitated in vain.
He heaps up riches and
does not know who will
gather them.
7 📚✭And now, Lord,
for what do I wait?
My hope is in you.
8 📚✭Deliver me from all
my transgressions.
Do not make me the scorn
of the foolish.
9 📚✭I was mute;
I did not open my mouth;
because you did it.
10 📚Remove your plague
from me;
I am destroyed by the blow
of your hand.
11 📚✭When you use rebukes
to correct a man for sin,
you make his beauty consume
like a moth✭.
Surely every man is vanity. Selah
12 📚✭Hear my prayer, O LORD,
and give ear to my cry.
Do not be silent at my tears;
for I am a foreigner✭
with you,
and a sojourner,
as all my fathers were.
13 📚✭Oh, look away from me,
that I may recover strength,
before I leave here and am no more.