Psalms 39:13
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication : give ear to my tears. Be not silent : for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
In Context
14O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
Cross References
Genesis 42:36Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.
Leviticus 25:23The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.
Job 10:20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
Job 14:10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray 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 →