Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms 39:13 in other translations
| BSB | Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.” |
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| WEB | Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.” |
| ASV | Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. |
| YLT | Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not! |
| DARBY | Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more. |
| BBE | Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing. |
| Webster | O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. |
What does Psalms 39:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 39:12-13
12-13. Consonant with the tenor of the Psalm, he prays for God's compassionate regard to him as a stranger here; and that, as such was the condition of his fathers, so, like them, he may be cheered instead of being bound under wrath and chastened in displeasure.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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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…
Psalms 39:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 39:13
- Job 14:5-6
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
- Job 10:20-21
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
- Job 14:10-12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
- Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
- Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
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Context
- Psalms 39:12
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.
- Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms 39:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Déjame, y tomaré fuerzas, antes que vaya y perezca. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Écoute ma prière, ô Éternel! et prête l’oreille à mon cri; ne sois pas sourd à mes larmes, car je suis un étranger, un hôte, chez toi, comme tous mes pères. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Blicke von mir ab, daß ich mich erquicke, bevor ich dahingehe und nicht mehr bin! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quoniam circumdederunt me mala quorum non est numerus; comprehenderunt me iniquitates meæ, et non potui ut viderem. Multiplicatæ sunt super capillos capitis mei, et cor meum dereliquit me. |