Psalms 39:13
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Literal Standard Version
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 their father Jacob says to them, “You have bereaved me; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin you take—all these [things] have been against me.”
Leviticus 25:23And the land is not sold—to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for you [are] sojourners and settlers with Me;
1 Chronicles 29:15for we [are] sojourners and settlers before You, like all our fathers; our days on the land [are] as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Job 10:20Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, || And I brighten up a little,
Job 14:10And a man dies, and becomes weak, || And man expires, and where [is] he?
Psalms 119:19I [am] a sojourner on earth, || Do not hide Your commands 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 →