Hebrew Names Version HNV
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 <<For the Chief Musician. For Yedutun. A Psalm by David.>> I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
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To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked [is] before me.'
2 I was mute with silence. I held my shalom, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
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I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.
3 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
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Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
4 "LORD, make me to know my end, What is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
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`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it [is],' I know how frail I [am].
5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
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Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.
6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
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Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
7 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
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And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it [is] of Thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.
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From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
9 I was mute, I didn't open my mouth, Because you did it.
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I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done [it].
10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
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Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
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With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.
12 "Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And [to] my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I [am] with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more."
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Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
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