Book 27 : KETUVIM - PSALMS - Chapter 039
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For the Leader, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David
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I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with
my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.
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I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort;
and my pain was held in check
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My heart waxed hot within me; while I was musing, the fire
kindled; then spoke I with my tongue
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'HaShem, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my
days, what it is; let me know how short-lived I am
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Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine
age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether
vanity. Sela
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Surely man walketh as a mere semblance; surely for vanity
they are in turmoil; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather
them
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And now, L-rd, what wait I for? My hope, it is in Thee
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Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the
reproach of the base
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I am dumb, I open not my mouth; because Thou hast done it
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Remove Thy stroke from off me; I am consumed by the blow
of Thy hand
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With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like
a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity. Sela
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Hear my prayer, O HaShem, and give ear unto my cry; keep
not silence at my tears; for I am a stranger with Thee, a sojourner, as all my
fathers were
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Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go
hence, and be no more.
Book 27 : KETUVIM - PSALMS - Chapter 039
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