Psalms 39:13
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
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 said to them, You⌃ have bereaved me. Joseph is not, Symeon is not, and will you⌃ take Benjamin? all these things have come upon me.
Leviticus 25:23And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because you⌃ are strangers and sojourners before me.
1 Chronicles 29:15for we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Job 10:20Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
Job 14:10But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
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 →