I Will Watch My Ways 1 DRA Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me. 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 DRA I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed. BSB BSB: I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3 DRA My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out. BSB BSB: My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 DRA I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me. BSB BSB: “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
5 DRA Behold thou hast made my days measurable: and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. 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 DRA Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things. 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 DRA And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee. BSB BSB: And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
8 DRA Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool. BSB BSB: Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
9 DRA I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it. BSB BSB: I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
10 DRA Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes: BSB BSB: Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
11 DRA Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted. 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 DRA Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner 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 DRA O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, 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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