Genesis 42:36; Genesis 5:24; Job 10:20; Job 10:21; Job 14:10-12; Job 14:5; Job 14:6
O spare me - The word used here - from שׁעה shâ‛âh - means “to look;” and then, in connection with the preposition, “to look away from;” an...
O spare me, that I may recover strength, (k) before I go hence, and be no more. (k) For his sorrow caused him to think that God would destroy him co...
XXXIX. Prayer of a Pious Israelite in Distress. Psalms 39:3 . The poet, afflicted though he is, is silent in presence of the wicked, lest they sh...
recover strength . be comforted. Hebrew "brighten up".
13 Let me alone, that I may recover strength. Literally, it is, cease from me, and therefore some explain it, Let there be a wall raised...
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. O spare me - Take me not from this state of probation till I have a thoro...
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. O spare me - literally, 'look away from me;' 'turn away (thy angr...
This is a Ps. of great pathos and beauty. The writer's sore sickness, accepted as the punishment of sin ( Psalms 39:9-11 ), has impressed him with th...
Spare me ] lit. 'look away from me,' 'avert thy frown.' Recover strength ] lit. 'brighten up.' The day of life may be short, but the Psalmist seeks...
Recover strength. — Better, Let me become cheerful, i.e., look up with a glad look once more on my face, as the angry look fades from the Divine...
Psalms 39:1-13 PROTRACTED suffering, recognised as chastisement for sin, had wasted the psalmist's strength. It had been borne for a while in sile...
the Fleeting Measure of Our Days Psalms 39:1-13 In the opening verses David describes the circumstances out of which this psalm arose. The pres...
Again the circumstances are sorrow and affliction. The attitude of the sufferer is true dignity. If the psalm be taken in connection with the precedi...
I have made no break or interruption in these verses, because the subject through the whole is one and the same. Under several very striking and eleg...
REFLECTIONS READER! let our improvements on this solemn meditation of the Psalmist, (for we are all, as men, equally interested in it), lead out our...
Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
THE PILGRIM’S PRAYER ‘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 sojou...
O spare me ,.... Or "look from me" f; turn away thy fierce countenance from me; or "cease from me g, and let me alone"; as in Job 10:20 ; from whe...
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. Ver. 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength ] Ut refociller, ref...
O spare me Hebrew, השׁע ממני, hashang, memenni Desiste a me, desist , or cease from me , that is, from afflicting me: do not destroy me; my life...
Confidence in God; David Pleading with God. 7 And now, Lord, what wai...
Spare me; or, cease from me , i.e. from afflicting me; do not destroy me. My life at best is but short and miserable, as I have said, and thou kno...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, a psalm of David.” Jeduthun was one of the leaders of the sacred music in the...
Psalms 39:13 These are the closing words of the most beautiful of sacred elegies. It is the pathetic utterance of a heart not yet subdued to perfe...
This Psalm gives a description of David's experience and conduct when stretched upon a sick-bed. He appears to have felt impatience working within hi...
This psalm is inscribed to Jeduthun, leader of one of the choral bands in the temple. 1 Chronicles 16:41 ; and bears the name of David. Psalms 3...
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue; I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle. Thought and prayer under tria...
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence and be no more! A prayer in the prospect of death I. A departure anticipated. Death...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist, vexed and disgusted with life, feeling a desire to murmur and complain, but aware that his words are watched, and his...
The Believer's Attitude in View of the Apparent Happiness of the Godless. To the chief musician, even to Jeduthun, or Ethan, the name of one of Da...
O spare me, turning from him the look of His angry face, that I may recover strength, being cheered in the midst of his troubles, before I go henc...
No more — Among the living, or in this world.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.