I Will Watch My Ways 1 Brenton For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence. BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
2 Brenton I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words ; and my grief was renewed. BSB BSB: I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3 Brenton My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue, BSB BSB: My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 Brenton O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack. BSB BSB: “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
5 Brenton Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause. BSB BSB: You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
6 Brenton Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them. BSB BSB: Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
7 Brenton And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with thee. Pause. BSB BSB: And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
8 Brenton Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish. BSB BSB: Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
9 Brenton I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me. BSB BSB: I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
10 Brenton Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thine hand. BSB BSB: Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
11 Brenton Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web: nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause. BSB BSB: You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
12 Brenton O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were . BSB BSB: Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
13 Brenton Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more. BSB BSB: Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
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