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psalms 39:4-13

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Psalms 39:4-13

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

4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am]. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah. 6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them. 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 not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were]. 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalms 39:4-13 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 39:4

Theological / Devotional

End. The substance of the psalmist’s troubled thoughts is expressed in the first clause of this verse. The psalmist wants to have a proper sense of the brevity and uncertainty of human life, that he may rest in the consciousness of God’s care.

How frail I am. Compare Job 3.

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