My hope is in thee; deliver me
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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.
.2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
Not
sin with my tongue See ja0302,
jb0210.
Bridle Literally, "muzzle" as in de2504. Compare ja0302. The wrong words would assist the hostility of the wicked ps07315. Dumb See ps03813. |
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My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake
I with my tongue,
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. |
Then
spake I From
here through v13 he unloads his feelings.
Frail As Job jb03. |
| 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.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
Handbredth
A short length – 1/6 cubit. Should be plural.
Age Hebrew cheled. Life expenctancy. ps09004. Disquieted in vain Wealth does not satisfy. ja0513. Heapeth up jb02716, ec0218, ec0221. |
| 7 ¶ And now, Lord, what
wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
Hope
is in thee A bright spot in the psalm.
Passages linked to often have several verses. |
| 9 I was dumb, I opened not
my mouth; because thou didst it.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 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. |
Was
dumb In v2.
Because thou didst it David thinks his sins have caused his problems. This may have been to some degree but he and we do not see the whole picture as God does. Remove thy stroke We may pray like this but always submitting to the will of God 2co1208, lu2242. For "stroke" see on ps03811 where the Hebrew is translated "sore." Moth See is5108, ho0512. Selah Probably a pause in reading or an emphasis like "Amen." |
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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.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. |
Stranger
Compaer ge1513,
ex0222.
A "sojourner" is a temporary resident. See 1ch2915.
Be no more Compare ps00605, jb1401. Or was he thiking of being totally gone as in the second death? ob16. |
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