Psalms 39:13
Turn your gaze from me so that I may smile again 1 before I die.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 42:36Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children. Joseph is no longer alive, Simeon is gone, and you will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold to a new permanent owner, because the land is mine. You are all foreigners and temporary residents on my land.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers and travelers before you, as all our ancestors were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope of remaining on earth.
Job 10:20Are not my days only a few? Stop then, 1 let me alone, so that I may have a little rest 1
Job 14:10But man dies; he becomes weak; 1 indeed, man stops breathing, and then where is he? 1
Psalms 119:19I am a foreigner in the land; 1 do not hide your commandments from me. 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 →