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| [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]I thought, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth bridled, while the wicked is in my sight. |
| [2]I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
[2]I was dumb and spake nothing: I kept silence even from good, and my sorrow was more stirred. |
| [3]My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue. |
[3]Mine heart was hot within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindled, and I spake with my tongue, saying, |
| [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. |
[4]Lord, let me know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: let me know how long I have to live. |
| [5]Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
[5]Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely every man in his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
| [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. |
[6]Doubtless man walketh in a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. |
| [7]And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
[7]And now Lord, what wait I for? Mine hope is even in thee. |
| [8]Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
[8]Deliver me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. |
| [9]I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. |
[9]I should have been dumb, and not have opened my mouth, because thou didst it. |
| [10]Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. |
[10]Take thy plague away from me: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand. |
| [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. |
[11]When thou with rebukes dost chastise man for iniquity, thou as a moth makest his beauty to consume: surely every man is vanity. Selah. |
| [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. |
[12]Hear my prayer, O Lord, and hearken unto my cry: keep not silence at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers. |
| [13]O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. |
[13]Stay thine anger from me, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence and be not. |