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| 1 To the chief Musician, even 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. |
I – Jesus.
I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me – So as not to give them any ammunition against me. Jesus followed this when he appeared before Pilate. |
| 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
I was dumb with silence – So much so that Pilate was amazed. Matt. 27:13-14; Mark 15:5 |
| 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, |
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| 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. |
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| 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
Thou has made my days as an handbreadth – A span. At the end of the 31/2 years of drout, Elijah sent his servant who saw a cloud "like a man's hand." Elijah immediately responded that his servant should tell king Ahab that it was going to rain. Thus it may be that this has reference to a period of 31/2 years (literal or symbolic). |
| 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
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| 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
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| 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
From all my transgression – Having looked this up it may be that the various translations are implying the word "my" here. Rather it seems a better rendering would be "From all transgressions free me." Certainly our Lord had no transgressions to be freed from. For His body members this is not so. We have many transgressions (after the flesh) that we need to be freed from. But we should remember that the New Creature does not sin. - 1 John 3:9 |
| 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. |
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| 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. |
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| 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. |
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| 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; 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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| 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. |
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