["To the chief Musician, <FI>even<Fi> 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 bridle, while the wicked is before me.<RF>my mouth…: Heb. a bridle, or, muzzle for my mouth<Rf>","I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, <FI>even<Fi> from good; and my sorrow was stirred.<RF>stirred: Heb. troubled<Rf>","My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: <FI>then<Fi> spake I with my tongue,","LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it <FI>is; that<Fi> I may know how frail I <FI>am<Fi>.<RF>how…: or, what time I have here<Rf>","Behold, thou hast made my days <FI>as<Fi> an handbreadth; and mine age <FI>is<Fi> as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state <FI>is<Fi> altogether vanity. Selah.<RF>at…: Heb. settled<Rf>","Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up <FI>riches<Fi>, and knoweth not who shall gather them.<RF>a vain…: Heb. an image<Rf><CM>","And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope <FI>is<Fi> 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 <FI>it<Fi>.","Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.<RF>blow: Heb. conflict<Rf>","When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man <FI>is<Fi> vanity. Selah.<RF>his…: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away<Rf>","Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I <FI>am<Fi> a stranger with thee, <FI>and<Fi> a sojourner, as all my fathers <FI>were<Fi>.","O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.<CM>"]