Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go behind, and be no more.
Updated King James 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 Jacob their father said unto them, Me have all of you bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and all of you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Leviticus 25:23The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for all of you are strangers and sojourners with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Job 14:10But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Psalms 119:19I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments 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 →