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39

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

1 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.

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

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

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

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

6 Surely every man walketh in † a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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 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.

12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto 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 go hence, and be no more.

[* ] 1 Chr. 25. 1.

[† ] Heb. a bridle, or, muzzle for my mouth.

[† ] Heb. troubled.

[∥ ] Or, what time I have here.

[† ] Heb. settled.

[* ] Ps. 62. 9. & 144 4.

[† ] Heb. an image.

[† ] Heb. conflict.

[† ] Heb. that which is to be desired in him, to melt away.

[* ] Lev. 25. 23. 1 Chr. 29. 15. Ps. 119. 19. Heb. 11. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 11.