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| 1 [[To the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Melody of David.]] I said, [to myself,] I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue,–I will put on my mouth a muzzle, So long as the lawless 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, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred: |
I was dumb with silence – So much so that Pilate was amazed. Matt. 27:13-14; Mark 15:5 |
| 3 Hot was my heart within me, While I was musing, there was kindled a fire, I spake with my tongue! |
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| 4 Let me know, O Yahweh, mine end, And the measure of my days–what it is, I would know how short-lived I am. |
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| 5 Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee,–Surely, a mere breath, are all men, [even] such as stand firm. [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 as a shadow, doth every man wander, Surely in vain, do they bustle about, he heapeth things up, and knoweth not who shall gather them in. |
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| 7 Now, therefore, for what have I waited, O My Lord? My hope, is, in thee. |
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| 8 From all my transgressions, rescue thou me,–The reproach of the base, oh do not make me! |
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 am dumb, I cannot open my mouth, for, thou, hast done it. |
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| 10 Remove from off me thy stroke, Because of the hostility of thy hand, am, I, consumed. |
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| 11 When, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. [Selah.] |
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| 12 Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent,–For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, like all my fathers. |
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| 13 Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more. |
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