Psalms 39:12

\39:11\By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

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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.

In Context

11\39:10\No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

13\39:12\Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:34And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

Leviticus 25:23No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

2 Kings 20:5Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

Job 13:28Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Psalms 56:8\56:7\By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

Psalms 102:1A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.

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 →

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