For the Chief Musician, for {Psalm 62 title. 77 title, 1 Chronicles 16:41, 25:1}Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, I will take heed to my ways,
That I sin not with my tongue:
I will keep {Hebrew: a bridle (or, muzzle) for my mouth}my mouth with a bridle,
While the wicked is before me.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, {Or, and had no comfort Hebrew: away from good.}even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred.
My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing the fire burned:
Then spake I with my tongue:
Jehovah, make me to know mine end,
And the measure of my days, what it is;
Let me know how frail I am.
Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;
And my life-time is as nothing before thee:
Surely every man {Hebrew: standing firm.}at his best estate is altogether {Hebrew: a breath.}vanity. [Selah
Surely every man walketh {Or, as a shadow}in a vain show;
Surely they are disquieted {Or, for vanity}in vain:
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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 {Hebrew: conflict.}blow of thy hand.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,
Thou {Or, consumest like a moth his delights}makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:
Surely every man is {Hebrew: a breath.}vanity.
[Selah
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;
Hold not thy peace at my tears:
For I am a stranger with thee,
A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Oh {Or, look away from me}spare me, that I may {Hebrew: brighten up.}recover strength,
Before I go hence, and be no more.
Querverweise zu Psalm 39,12 Ps 39,12
Thou numberest my wanderings:Put thou my tears into thy bottle;Are they not in thy { Or, record}book?
I am a sojourner in the earth:Hide not thy commandments from me.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my {Or, sojournings}pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their {Or, sojournings}pilgrimage.
The cords of death compassed me,And the pains of Sheol {Or, found me}gat hold upon me:I found trouble and sorrow.
Thy statutes have been my songsIn the house of my pilgrimage.
It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the {Or, leader}prince of my people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of Jehovah.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no {Hebrew: hope.}abiding.
My friends scoff at me:But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him {Or, out of}from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
These all died {Greek: according to.}in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;