1 GLT I decided,“I will watch what I say so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will muzzle my mouth while in the presence of an evil man.” 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 GLT I kept silent; I kept back my words even from saying anything good, and my pain grew worse. BSB BSB: I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3 GLT My heart became hot; when I thought about these things, it burned like a fire. Then finally I spoke. BSB BSB: My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 GLT “Yahweh, make me know when will be the end of my life and the extent of my days. Show me how transient I am. BSB BSB: “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
5 GLT See, you have made my days only the width of my hand, and my lifetime is like nothing before you. Surely every man is a single breath. Selah 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 GLT Surely every man walks about like a shadow. Surely everyone hurries about to accumulate riches although they do not know who will receive 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 GLT Now, Lord, for what am I waiting? You are my only hope. BSB BSB: And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
8 GLT Rescue me from my sins; do not make me the reproach of fools. BSB BSB: Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
9 GLT I am silent and cannot open my mouth, because it is you who has done it. BSB BSB: I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
10 GLT Stop wounding me; I am overwhelmed by the blow of your hand. BSB BSB: Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
11 GLT When you discipline people for sin, you consume the things they desire like a moth; surely all people are nothing but vapor. Selah 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 GLT Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and listen to me; listen to my weeping! Do not be deaf to me, for I am like a foreigner with you, a refugee like all my ancestors 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 GLT Turn your gaze from me so that I may smile again before I die.” 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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