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.
I was dumb
with silence,
I held my peace,
even from good;
and my sorrow
was stirred.
say
My heart
was hot
within
me, while I was musing
the fire
burned:
then
spake
I with my tongue,
LORD,
make me to know
mine end,
and the measure
of my days,
what it is; that I may know
how frail
I am.
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.
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.
palm’s breadth
παλαιστὰς
palaistas
all together
σύμπαντα
sympanta
interlude
διάψαλμα
diapsalma
And now, Lord,
what wait
I for? my hope
is in thee.
Deliver
me from all my transgressions:
make
me not the reproach
of the foolish.
I was dumb,
I opened
not my mouth;
because thou didst
it.
Remove
thy stroke
away
from me: I am consumed
by the blow
of thine hand.
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.
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.
refuting
ἐλεγμοῖς
elegmois
melt out
ἐξέτηξας
exetēxas
spider's web
ἀράχνην
arachnēn
interlude
διάψαλμα
diapsalma
O spare
me, that I may recover strength,
before I go hence,
and be no more.
keep silent
παρασιωπήσῃς
parasiōpēsēs
