Psalms 39:10
I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
In Context
9that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:3And Moses said to Aaron: “This is what the Lord has spoken: ‘I will be sanctified in those who approach me, and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people.’” And upon hearing this, Aaron was silent.
Job 2:10He said to her, “You have spoken like one of the foolish wives. If we accepted good things from the hand of God, why should we not accept bad things?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.
Job 13:21Take your hand far away from me, and do not let your dread terrify me.
Psalms 38:3I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.
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 →