Psalms 39:13
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Berean Standard Bible
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 42:36Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Job 10:20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your 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 →