LSV PSA Chapter 39

39 TO THE OVERSEER. FOR JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have said, “I observe my ways,
Against sinning with my tongue,
I keep a curb for my mouth,
While the wicked [is] before me.” 2 I was mute [with] silence,
I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited. 3 My heart [is] hot within me,
In my meditating the fire burns,
I have spoken with my tongue. 4 “Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end,
And the measure of my days—what it [is],”
I know how frail I [am]. 5 Behold, You have made my days handbreadths,
And my age [is] as nothing before You,
Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah. 6 Only, each habitually walks in an image,
Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted,
He heaps up and does not know who gathers them. 7 And now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions,
Do not make me a reproach of the fool. 9 I have been mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because You have done [it]. 10 Turn aside Your stroke from off me,
From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed. 11 With reproofs against iniquity,
You have corrected man,
And dissolve his desirableness as a moth,
Only, every man [is] vanity. Selah. 12 Hear my prayer, O YHWH,
And give ear [to] my cry,
Do not be silent to my tear,
For I [am] a sojourner with You,
A settler like all my fathers. 13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!