Psalms 39 · Verse 7

Psalms 39:7

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psalms 39:7, King James Version

Psalms 39:7 in other translations

BSBAnd now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
WEBNow, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
ASVAnd now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.
YLTAnd, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope--it is of Thee.
DARBYAnd now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.
BBEAnd now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
WebsterAnd now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

What does Psalms 39:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 39:4-7

4-7. Some take these words as those of fretting, but they are not essentially such. The tinge of discontent arises from the character of his suppressed emotions. But, addressing God, they are softened and subdued. make me to know mine end--experimentally appreciate. how frail I am--literally, "when I shall cease."

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? - Have I any object of pursuit in life, but to regain thy favor and thine image.

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 events concerning us; and a good man, for that reason, says nothing against it. He desires the pardoning of his sin, and the preventing of his shame. We must both watch and pray against sin. When under the correcting hand of the Lord, we must look to God himself for relief, not to any other. Our ways and our doings bring us into trouble, and we are beaten with a rod of our own making. What a poor thing is beauty! and what fools are those that are proud of it, when it will certainly, and may quickly, be consumed! The body of man is as a garment to the soul. In this garment sin has lodged a moth, which wears away, first the beauty, then the strength, and finally the substance of its parts. Whoever has watched the progress of a lingering distemper, or the work of time alone, in the human frame, will feel at once the force of this comparison, and that, surely every man is vanity. Afflictions are sent to stir up prayer. If they have that effect, we may hope that God will hear our prayer. The believer expects weariness and ill treatment on his way to heaven; but he shall not stay here long : walking with God by faith, he goes forward on his journey, not diverted from his course, nor cast down by the difficulties he meets. How blessed it is to sit loose from things here below, that while going home to our Father's house, we may use the world as not abusing it! May we always look for that city, whose Builder and Maker is God.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 39:7 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.

וְעַתָּ֣הve.'a.Tahand nowH6258
מַה\־mah-what?H4100
קִּוִּ֣יתִיki.Vi.tido I wait forH6960
אֲדֹנָ֑י'a.do.NaiO LordH136
תּ֝וֹחַלְתִּ֗יto.chal.Tihope myH8431
לְךָ֣le.Kha[is] to you
הִֽיא\׃Hi'itH1931

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

Cross references for Psalms 39:7

  • Romans 15:13

    Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

  • Psalms 38:15

    For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

  • Psalms 119:81

    כ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

  • Genesis 49:18

    I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

  • Psalms 119:166

    Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

  • Job 13:15

    Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

  • Psalms 130:5-6

    I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

  • Luke 2:25

    And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
what wait.
130:5,6; Ge 49:18; Lu 2:25
hope.
38:15; 119:81,166; Job 13:15; Ro 15:13

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

Context

  • Psalms 39:6

    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.

  • Psalms 39:7

    And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

  • Psalms 39:8

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

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Psalms 39:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y ahora, Señor, ¿qué esperaré? Mi esperanza en ti está.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Certainement l’homme se promène parmi ce qui n’a que l’apparence; certainement il s’agite en vain; il amasse des biens, et il ne sait qui les recueillera.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und nun, auf was harre ich, Herr? Meine Hoffnung ist auf dich!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sacrificium et oblationem noluisti; aures autem perfecisti mihi. Holocaustum et pro peccato non postulasti;