Psalms 39:13
Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
Darby Translation
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 children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things are against me.
Leviticus 25:23And the land shall not be sold for ever; 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: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope [of life].
Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,
Job 14:10But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
Psalms 119:19I am a stranger in the land; 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 →