To the chief musician, to Jeduthun; a psalm of David.{HR}I said, I will keep my ways, from sinning with my tongue;{HR}I will keep a muzzle to my mouth, while the wicked [man is] before me.
I have been dumb [in] silence,{HR}I held my peace from good,{HR}But my pain was excited.
My heart grew warm in the midst of me;{HR}In my musing the fire burneth:{HR}I spoke with my tongue,
Make me to know, O Jehovah, my end,{HR}And the measure of my days, what it [is];{HR}Let me know how frail I am.
Behold, thou hast made my days handbreadths,{HR}And my lifetime as nothing before thee:{HR}Surely all vanity [is] every man appointed. Selah.
Surely in an image doth man walk;{HR}Surely in vain are they disquieted:{HR}He hoardeth, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
And now what wait I for, O Lord?{HR}My expectation [is] from thee.
From all my transgressions deliver me;{HR}Make me not the reproach of the fool.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst [it].
Remove from me thy stroke;{HR}From the strife of thy hand I am consumed.
With chastisement for iniquity thou correctest man,{HR}And consumest like the moth what he desireth;{HR}Only vanity is every man. Selah.
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,{HR}And to my cry give ear;{HR}At my tears be not silent;{HR}For a stranger [am] I with thee,{HR}A sojourner like all my fathers.
Look away from me,{HR}And let me comfort myself before I go and am not.