to the/ choirmaster for/ Jeduthun a psalm of/ DavidI said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”
English text: World English Bible (public domain). Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.