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Psalms 39:8

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Psalms 39:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 39:8

Theological / Devotional

From all my transgressions. The psalmist believes that forgiveness will bring deliverance from trouble, for he holds his trouble to be the result of transgression.

Foolish. Heb. nabal, frequently translated “fool” (2 Sam. 3:33; Ps. 14:1 ; 53:1; etc.). The psalmist is jealous for God’s honor. He believes that if God does not deliver him, he will be ridiculed by the godless, who will rejoice in visible proof that God does not concern Himself with man.

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