Yahweh, Make Me Know My End
For the choir director. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will akeep watch over my ways
That I bmay not sin with my tongue;
I will keep watch over cmy mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”
2 I was amute with silence,
I even kept silent from speaking good,
And my anguish grew worse.
3 My aheart was hot within me,
While I meditated the fire was burning;
Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 “Yahweh, cause me to know amy end
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how btransient I am.
5 Behold, You have made amy days as handbreadths,
And my blifetime as nothing before You;
Surely every man, even standing firm, is altogether cvanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man awalks about as a shadow;
Surely they make an buproar in vain;
He cpiles up riches and does not know who will gather them.
7 “And now, Lord, what do I hope in?
My aexpectation is in You.
8 aDeliver me from all my transgressions;
Make me not the breproach of the wicked fool.
9 I have become amute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is bYou who have done it.
10 aRemove Your plague from me;
Because of bthe opposition of Your hand I am wasting away.
11 With areproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You bconsume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely cevery man is vanity. Selah.
12 “aHear my prayer, O Yahweh, and give ear to my cry for help;
Do not be silent bat my tears;
For I am ca sojourner with You,
A dforeign resident like all my fathers.
13 aTurn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
Before I go and am no more.”