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  • What Is the Measure of My Days?

    To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

    I said, “I will guard my ways,
    that I may not sin with my tongue;
    I will guard my mouth with a muzzle,
    so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
  • I Will Watch My Ways

    {To the chief Musician, 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 muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
  • I was mute and silent;
    I held my peace to no avail,
    and my distress grew worse.
  • I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  • My heart became hot within me.
    As I mused, the fire burned;
    then I spoke with my tongue:
  • My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
  • “O Lord, make me know my end
    and what is the measure of my days;
    let me know how fleeting I am!
  • Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
  • Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and my lifetime is as nothing before you.
    Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
  • Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
  • Surely a man goes about as a shadow!
    Surely for nothinga they are in turmoil;
    man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
  • Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
  • “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
    My hope is in you.
  • And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.
  • Deliver me from all my transgressions.
    Do not make me the scorn of the fool!
  • Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.
  • I am mute; I do not open my mouth,
    for it is you who have done it.
  • I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for *thou* hast done [it].
  • Remove your stroke from me;
    I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
  • Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
  • When you discipline a man
    with rebukes for sin,
    you consume like a moth what is dear to him;
    surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
  • When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
  • “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
    and give ear to my cry;
    hold not your peace at my tears!
    For I am a sojourner with you,
    a guest, like all my fathers.
  • Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
  • Look away from me, that I may smile again,
    before I depart and am no more!”
  • Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.

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