¹ To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 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.¹

1. my mouth...: Heb. a bridle, or, muzzle for my mouth

² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.¹

1. stirred: Heb. troubled

³ My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue,

⁴ LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am .¹

1. how...: or, what time I have here

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breadth; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.¹

1. at...: Heb. settled

⁶ 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.¹

1. a vain...: Heb. an image

⁷ And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

⁹ I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it .

¹⁰ Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.¹

1. blow: Heb. conflict

¹¹ 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.¹

1. his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away

¹² Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were .

¹³ O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I depart, and be no more.