1. "To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David." I said, I will be careful of my ways, that I do not sin with my tongue: I will restrain my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my grief was stirred.
3. My heart was hot within me; while I was considering 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 frail I am.
5. Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6. Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are anxious in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
7. And now, Lord, what do I wait for? my hope is in you.
8. Deliver me from all my transgressions: do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
9. I was dumb, I did not open my mouth; because you did it.
10. Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
11. When you with rebukes correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.