| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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 choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, "I will guard my ways That I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle While the wicked are in my presence." |
| 2I was as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened. | 2I was mute and silent, I refrained even from good, And my sorrow grew worse. |
| 3My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out: | 3My heart was hot within me, While I was musing 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"LORD, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am. |
| 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 | 5"Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely every man at his best is a mere 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. | 6"Surely every man walks about as a phantom; Surely they make an uproar for nothing; He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them. |
| 7How long, LORD, will I wait expectantly? I have placed my hope in you. | 7"And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You. |
| 8Deliver me from all my transgressions, and do not let fools scorn me." | 8"Deliver me from all my transgressions; Make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| 9I remain silent; I do not open my mouth, for you are the one who acted. | 9"I have become mute, I do not open my mouth, Because it is You who have done it. |
| 10Stop scourging me, since I have been crushed by your heavy hand. | 10"Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing. |
| 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 | 11"With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity; You consume as a moth what is precious to him; Surely every man is a mere breath. 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. | 12"Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner like all my fathers. |
| 13Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more. | 13"Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again Before I depart and am no more." |
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