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| 1 To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. |
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. |
| I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked [is] before me.' |
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| 2 I was dumb [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited. |
I was dumb with silence – So much so that Pilate was amazed. Matt. 27:13-14; Mark 15:5 |
| 3 Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue. |
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| 4 'Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days what it [is],' I know how frail I [am]. |
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| 5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. 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 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them. |
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| 7 And, now, what have I expected O Lord, my hope it [is] of Thee. |
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| 8 From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not. |
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 have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou Thou hast done [it]. |
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| 10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed. |
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| 11 With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah. |
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| 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And [to] my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I [am] with Thee, A settler like all my fathers. |
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| 13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not! |
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