I Will Watch My Ways 1 WBS To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 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. 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 WBS I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. BSB BSB: I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3 WBS My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then 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 WBS LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail 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 WBS Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 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 WBS Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches , and knoweth not who 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 WBS And now, LORD, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. BSB BSB: And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
8 WBS Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. BSB BSB: Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
9 WBS I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it . BSB BSB: I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
10 WBS Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. BSB BSB: Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
11 WBS 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. 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 WBS Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: 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 WBS O spare me, that I may recover strength, 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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