Psalms 39:13
(39:14) Leave off from me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and am no more.
Leeser Tanakh
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 unto them, Me ye have bereaved of my children: Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone, and Benjamin ye will take away; all these things are against me.
Leviticus 25:23And the land shall not be sold for a permanence [to the purchaser]; for the land is mine; for strangers and sojourners are ye with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15For strangers are we before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: like a shadow are our days on the earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Job 10:20Lo! my days are but few: cease, then, withdraw from me [thy hand], that I may recover my cheerfulness a little.
Job 14:10But man dieth, and lieth powerless: yea, the son of earth departeth—and where is he?
Psalms 119:19A stranger am I on the earth: hide not from me thy commandments.
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 →