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. 1 Pro 21:23Psa 141:3Jas 1:26Psa 119:9Mic 7:5-6Psa 34:13Jas 3:2-8Pro 18:21
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 2 Act 4:20Mat 27:12-14Isa 53:7Psa 38:13-14Job 32:19-20Mat 7:6
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, Jer 20:9Luk 24:32Ezk 3:14
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 3 Psa 90:12Psa 103:14Psa 119:84Job 14:13
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 4 Psa 144:4Psa 89:47Psa 62:9Psa 90:9-10Ecc 2:11Psa 39:11Jas 4:14Job 14:1-2
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. 5 Luk 12:20-21Ecc 2:26Jas 4:141Co 7:31Ecc 12:13Psa 127:21Pe 5:7Ecc 2:17-21
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. Rom 15:13Psa 38:15Psa 119:81Gen 49:18Job 13:15Psa 119:166Luk 2:25Psa 130:5-6
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. Psa 44:13Psa 51:14Jol 2:17Mic 7:19Jol 2:19Psa 130:8Psa 25:11Psa 25:18
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. Job 2:101Sa 3:182Sa 16:10Dan 4:35Job 1:21Job 40:4-5Lev 10:3Psa 38:13
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 6 Job 9:34Job 13:21Psa 25:16-17Psa 32:4Psa 38:3-41Sa 6:5Job 40:8
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. 7 Job 13:28Heb 12:6Isa 50:91Co 11:30-32Rev 3:191Co 5:5Psa 102:10-112Pe 2:16
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 1Pe 2:11Heb 11:132Ki 20:5Lev 25:23Gen 47:9Psa 116:3Psa 119:191Ch 29:15
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. Job 10:20-21Job 14:10-12Job 14:5-6Job 7:19Gen 42:36Gen 5:24