1 To the Overcomer, [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 bit while the wicked is against me.

2 I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned; [then] I spoke with my tongue,

4 LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it [is that] I may know how long I am to be of this world.

5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] a handbreadth, and my age [is] as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

6 Surely man walks in darkness; surely they are disquieted in vain; they heap up [riches] not knowing who shall gather them.

7 And now, Lord, what shall I wait for? My hope [is] in thee.

8 Deliver me from all my rebellions; do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst [it].

10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

11 When thou with chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness to consume away like a moth; surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.

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].

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.: