Psalms 39:13

O spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more!

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

In Context

12Hear my prayer, O LORD! Give ear to my cry; Be not silent at my tears! For I am but a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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Cross References

Job 10:20Are not my days few? O spare then, And let me alone, that I may be at ease a little while,

Job 14:10But man dieth, and he is gone! Man expireth, and where is he?

Psalms 119:19I am a stranger in the earth; O hide not thy precepts 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 →

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