Psalms 39:13
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Young's Literal Translation
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 saith unto them, 'Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take — against me have been all these.'
Leviticus 25:23'And the land is not sold — to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for sojourners and settlers [are] ye with Me;
1 Chronicles 29:15for sojourners we [are] before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow [are] our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
Job 10:20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
Job 14:10And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where [is] he?
Psalms 119:19A sojourner I [am] on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.
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 →