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To the chief Musician[H5329], even to Jeduthun[H3038], A Psalm[H4210] of David[H1732]. I said[H559], I will take heed[H8104] to my ways[H1870], that I sin[H2398] not with my tongue[H3956]: I will keep[H8104] my mouth[H6310] with a bridle[H4269], while the wicked[H7563] is before me.
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I was dumb[H481] with silence[H1747], I held my peace[H2814], even from good[H2896]; and my sorrow[H3511] was stirred[H5916].
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My heart[H3820] was hot[H2552]within[H7130] me, while I was musing[H1901] the fire[H784]burned[H1197]: then[H227]spake[H1696] I with my tongue[H3956],
4LORD[H3068], make me to know[H3045] mine end[H7093], and the measure[H4060] of my days[H3117], what it is; that I may know[H3045] how frail[H2310] I am.
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Behold, thou hast made[H5414] my days[H3117] as an handbreadth[H2947]; and mine age[H2465] is as nothing before thee: verily every[H3605]man[H120] at his best state[H5324] is altogether[H3605]vanity[H1892]. Selah[H5542].
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Surely every man[H376]walketh[H1980] in a vain[H1892]shew[H6754]: surely they are disquieted[H1993] in vain[H1892]: he heapeth up[H6651] riches, and knoweth[H3045] not who shall gather[H622] them.
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And now, Lord[H136], what wait[H6960] I for? my hope[H8431] is in thee.
8Deliver[H5337] me from all my transgressions[H6588]: make[H7760] me not the reproach[H2781] of the foolish[H5036].
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I was dumb[H481], I opened[H6605] not my mouth[H6310]; because thou didst[H6213] it.
10Remove[H5493] thy stroke[H5061]away[H5493] from me: I am consumed[H3615] by the blow[H8409] of thine hand[H3027].
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When thou with rebukes[H8433] dost correct[H3256]man[H376] for iniquity[H5771], thou makest his beauty[H2530] to consume away[H4529] like a moth[H6211]: surely every man[H120] is vanity[H1892]. Selah[H5542].
12Hear[H8085] my prayer[H8605], O LORD[H3068], and give ear[H238] unto my cry[H7775]; hold not thy peace[H2790] at my tears[H1832]: for I am a stranger[H1616] with thee, and a sojourner[H8453], as all my fathers[H1] were.
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O spare[H8159] me, that I may recover strength[H1082], before I go hence[H3212], and be no more.