The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
Hope in the LORD |
To the chief Musician, even to Jedu’thun, A Psalm of David. |
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I said, I will take heed to my ways,
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that I sin not with my tongue: |
I will keep my mouth with a bridle, |
while the wicked is before me. |
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I was dumb with silence,
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I held my peace, even from good; |
and my sorrow was stirred. |
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My heart was hot within me;
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while I was musing the fire burned: |
then spake I with my tongue, |
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LORD, make me to know mine end,
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and the measure of my days, what it is; |
that I may know how frail I am. |
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Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth;
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and mine age is as nothing before thee: |
verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
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Surely every man walketh in a vain show:
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surely they are disquieted in vain: |
he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
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And now, Lord, what wait I for?
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Deliver me from all my transgressions:
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make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
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I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;
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Remove thy stroke away from me:
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I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. |
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When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,
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thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: |
surely every man is vanity. Selah. |
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Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry;
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hold not thy peace at my tears: |
for I am a stranger with thee, |
and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. |
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O spare me, that I may recover strength,
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before I go hence, and be no more. |
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