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Psalms 39:13

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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

Psalms 39:13 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 39:13

Theological / Devotional

Spare me. Literally, “turn your gaze from me.” Do not continue to afflict me. In contrast with the usual prayer for God to look toward him and help, the psalmist now prays that God may turn away from him what to the psalmist is His punishing glance.

Recover strength. Literally, “brighten up.”

Be no more. Compare Ps. 6:5; Job 14:1–12. The psalm ends in a tone of deep sorrow, sustaining the almost unbroken unity of thought of the elegy (see v. 7).

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