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For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. |
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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. |
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I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow
was stirred. |
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My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: Then
spake I with my tongue: |
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YAHUVEH, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it
is; Let me know how frail I am. |
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Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time
is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether
vanity. Selah |
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Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in
vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
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And now, Master, what wait I for? My hope is in thee. |
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Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the
foolish. |
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I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it. |
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Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. |
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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 |
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Hear my prayer, O YAHUVEH, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace
at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers
were. |
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Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no
more. |