0TO THE CHOIRMASTER FOR JEDUTHUN A PSALM OF DAVID I Will Watch My Ways 0For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
1I SAID I WILL GUARD WAYS MY FROM SINNING WITH TONGUE MY I WILL KEEP TO MOUTH MY A MUZZLE WHILE STILL [THE] WICKED [IS] TO BEFORE ME 1I 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.”
2I WAS DUMB SILENCE I WAS SILENT FROM GOOD AND PAIN MY IT WAS STIRRED UP 2I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3IT BECAME HOT HEART MY IN INNER BEING MY IN SIGHING MY IT BURNED FIRE I SPOKE WITH TONGUE MY 3My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
4MAKE KNOWN TO ME O YAHWEH END MY AND [THE] MEASURE OF DAYS MY WHAT? [IS] IT LET ME KNOW HOW! FLEETING [AM] I 4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
5HERE! HANDBREADTHS YOU HAVE MADE DAYS MY AND LIFESPAN MY [IS] LIKE NOTHING BEFORE YOU [IS] ONLY ALL VANITY ALL HUMANKIND [WHICH] STANDS SELAH 5You, 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
6ONLY <IN> AN IMAGE HE GOES ABOUT A PERSON ONLY VANITY PEOPLE ARE IN TURMOIL! HE HEAPS UP AND NOT HE KNOWS WHO? [WILL BE] GATHERING THEM 6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
7AND NOW WHAT? DO I WAIT FOR O LORD HOPE MY [IS] TO YOU IT 7And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
8FROM ALL TRANSGRESSIONS MY DELIVER ME A REPROACH OF [THE] FOOLISH MAY NOT YOU MAKE ME 8Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
9I AM DUMB NOT I OPEN MOUTH MY FOR YOU YOU HAVE ACTED 9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
10REMOVE FROM ON <THE> ME PLAGUE YOUR FROM [THE] HOSTILITY OF HAND YOUR I I HAVE COME TO AN END 10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
11WITH REBUKES ON INIQUITY YOU HAVE DISCIPLINED A PERSON AND YOU HAVE MELTED LIKE <THE> MOTH DESIRED [THING] HIS [IS] ONLY VANITY ALL HUMANKIND SELAH 11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
12HEAR! PRAYER MY O YAHWEH AND CRY FOR HELP MY GIVE EAR TO! TO TEAR[S] MY MAY NOT YOU BE SILENT FOR [AM] A SOJOURNER I WITH YOU A RESIDENT ALIEN LIKE ALL ANCESTORS MY 12Hear 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.
13SMEAR FROM ME SO LET ME BE CHEERFUL <IN> BEFORE I WILL GO AND THERE NOT [WILL BE] ME 13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”