Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 42:36And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.
Leviticus 25:23And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 10:20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little
Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Psalms 119:19I am a sojourner in the earth. Hide not thy commandments from me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 39:8-13
Confidence in God; David Pleading with God. 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. 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. 12 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and give ear unto my cry; hold… Read the whole commentary →