| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1I told myself, "I will keep watch over my tongue to keep from sinning. I will muzzle my mouth when the wicked are around." | 1For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I 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 as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened. | 2I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred. |
| 3My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out: | 3My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue: |
| 4"LORD, let me know how my life ends, and the standard by which you will measure my days, whatever it is! Then I will know how transient my life is. | 4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is. |
| 5Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude | 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 |
| 6In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get 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. |
| 7How long, LORD, will I wait expectantly? I have placed my hope in you. | 7And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You. |
| 8Deliver me from all my transgressions, and do not let fools scorn me." | 8Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools. |
| 9I remain silent; I do not open my mouth, for you are the one who acted. | 9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done. |
| 10Stop scourging me, since I have been crushed by your heavy hand. | 10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand. |
| 11You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude | 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 my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were. | 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. |
| 13Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more. | 13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.” |
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