Psalms 39 · Verse 10

Psalms 39:10

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Psalms 39:10, King James Version

Psalms 39:10 in other translations

BSBRemove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
WEBRemove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
ASVRemove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
YLTTurn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
DARBYRemove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
BBENo longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
WebsterRemove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

What does Psalms 39:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 39:8-10

8-10. Patiently submissive, he prays for the removal of his chastisement, and that he may not be a reproach.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Remove thy stroke away from me - This seems to be a figure taken from gladiators, or persons contending in single combat. One is wounded so as to be able to maintain the fight no longer: he therefore gives in, and prays his adversary to spare his life. I am conquered; I can hold the contest no longer: thou art too powerful for me. He cries what our ancestors used to term craven; the word spoken by him who was conquered in the battle ordeal, or trial by combat.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 39:7-13

There is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature; but it is to be found in the Lord, and in communion with him; to him we should be driven by our disappointments. If the world be nothing but vanity, may God deliver us from having or seeking our portion in it. When creature-confidences fail, it is our comfort that we have a God to go to, a God to trust in. We may see a good God doing all, and ordering all…

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Psalms 39:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הָסֵ֣רha.SerremoveH5493
מֵעָלַ֣יme.'a.Laifrom on <the> meH5921
נִגְעֶ֑ךָnig.'E.khaplague yourH5061
מִתִּגְרַ֥תmi.tig.Ratfrom [the] hostility ofH8409
יָ֝דְךָ֗ya.de.khahand yourH3027
אֲנִ֣י'a.NiIH589
כָלִֽיתִי\׃kha.Li.tiI have come to an endH3615

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 39:10

  • Job 9:34

    Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

  • Job 13:21

    Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

  • Psalms 32:4

    For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

  • Psalms 25:16-17

    Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

  • Psalms 38:3-4

    There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

  • Job 40:8

    Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

  • 1 Samuel 6:5

    Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Remove.
25:16,17; 1Sa 6:5; Job 9:34; 13:21
I am consumed.
38:3,4
blow. Heb. conflict.
Job 40:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 39:9

    I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

  • Psalms 39:10

    Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

  • Psalms 39:11

    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.

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Psalms 39:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Quita de sobre mí tu plaga; de la guerra de tu mano soy consumido.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Je suis resté muet, je n’ai pas ouvert la bouche, car c’est toi qui l’as fait.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Entferne von mir deine Plage! Durch die Schläge deiner Hand vergehe ich.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Annuntiavi justitiam tuam in ecclesia magna; ecce labia mea non prohibebo: Domine, tu scisti.