Psalms 39:11

I have not concealed your justice within my heart. I have spoken your truth and your salvation. I have not concealed your mercy and your truth from a great assembly.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it.

12O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.

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Cross References

Job 4:19How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

Job 13:28I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.

Psalms 38:1Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David.

Psalms 102:10He has not dealt with us according to our sins, and he has not repaid us according to our iniquities.

Hosea 5:12And I will be like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

1 Corinthians 11:30As a result, many are weak and sick among you, and many have fallen asleep.

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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