Psalms 39:13
For innumerable evils have encompassed me; 1 My transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; 1 They are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; 1 And my heart has failed me. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
In Context
14Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; 1 O Lord, draw nigh to help me. 1
Cross References
Genesis 42:36And their father Jacob said to them, Ye have bereaved me. Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and will ye 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 ye are strangers and sojourners before me.
1 Chronicles 29:15for we are strangers before thee, 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? 1 Suffer me to rest a little, 1
Job 14:10But a man that has died is utterly gone; 1 And when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. 1
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 →