Psalms 39:13
For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
In Context
12O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.
14Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.
Cross References
Genesis 42:36Their father Jacob said, “You have caused me to be without children. Joseph is not living, Simeon is held in chains, and Benjamin you would carry away. All these evils have fallen back upon me.”
Leviticus 25:23Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.
Job 10:20Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,
Job 14:10Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he?
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 →