| 1: 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. |
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| 2: I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and
my sorrow was stirred. |
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| 3:
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire
burned: then spake I with my tongue, |
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| 4: LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,
what it is; that I may know how frail I am. |
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| 5: 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. |
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| 6: 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. |
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| 7: And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
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| 8: Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the
reproach of the foolish. |
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| 9: I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
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| 10: Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
thine hand. |
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| 11: 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. |
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| 12: 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. |
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| 13: O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence,
and be no more. |
