Psalm Look Away That I May Breathe Again

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"Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again Before I depart and am no more."
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Clarke'southward Commentary

Verse Psalms 39:13. O spare me — Take me not from this state of probation till I accept a thorough preparation for a land of blessedness. This he terms recovering his strength - being restored to the favour and image of God, from which he had fallen. This should be the daily cry of every human being spirit: Restore me to thine epitome, guide me by thy counsel, and then receive me to thy glory!

This Psalm was apparently written on the same occasion as the preceding. The psalmist is still suffering as earlier, yet is silent and patient; just the suffering at last becoming very precipitous, he could agree his peace no longer: and so he spoke. And we have reason to be thankful that he broke silence, as whoever considers the weighty truths which he spoke must let.

There are three parts in this Psalm: -

I. His own account of his resolution to go along silence, Psalms 39:1, and the consequences of it, Psalms 39:two-three.

2. His expostulation with God on the shortness, doubt, and frailty of life, Psalms 39:4-vi.

III. His petition to have his sin pardoned, Psalms 39:8; to exist saved from punishment, Psalms 39:10; and for farther grace and respite, Psalms 39:12-13.

I. David acquaints the states with his resolution: I said - I fully purposed to go along silence.

1. "I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my natural language."

2. This resolution he kept for a while: "I was impaired; I held my peace even from skilful," even from making a just defence.

three. But in this I plant great difficulty, nay, impossibility.

1. For all the time "my sorrow was stirred." My pain was increased by silence.

2. "My heart was hot." I was strongly incited to utter my listen.

iii. "And, while thus musing, the fire burned;" what was within I saw should not be longer concealed: "So spake I with my tongue."

Ii. He expostulates with God: and, being greatly oppressed both in body and mind, prays to know how long he is to live; or, rather, how soon he may become rid of his maladies, fake friends, and deceitful enemies. Many considerations render his life uncomfortable.

1. Information technology is very brittle and frail: "Make me to know how frail I am."

2. Information technology is very short: "Behold, thou hast fabricated my days as a handbreadth."

3. Yea, when carefully considered, it was fifty-fifty less, of no consideration: "Mine age is as nothing earlier thee."

4. Information technology was total of vanity: "Verily, every man at his best estate (in his strength, riches, power) is altogether vanity." His labours promise much, perform trivial.

5. It is unstable and uncertain, as a shadow. "Surely, every human being walketh in a vain shadow."

six. It is total of trouble and inquietude: "Surely, they are disquieted in vain."

7. Human being labours for he knows non whom: "He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them."

Nevertheless all this, he finds that fifty-fifty hither God is a sufficient Portion for them that trust in him. Permit others toil for riches; adore dignities, empires, pleasures; permit them be proud of these, and mutter that their life is likewise curt to enjoy them; I have a stronger hold; I am persuaded that the Lord will have mercy upon me, and be my Support in all the troubles and uncertainties of life: "And at present, Lord, what await I for? My hope is in thee."

III. On this confidence he again begins to pray, -

1. For remission of sin: "Deliver me from all my transgressions."

2. For defence confronting malicious tongues: "Make me not a reproach to the foolish."

iii. For submission under Divine chastisement: "I was dumb, considering thou didst it."

4. For a removal of his punishment: "Take abroad thy plague from me."

i. And he adds the cause; - either remove thy hand, or I must needs perish: "I am even consumed past the accident of thy paw."

2. This he amplifies by the similitude of a moth; and adds a second reason: "When k with rebukes dost right man, chiliad makest his beauty to eat away like the moth," which frets and destroys a garment. And, for confirmation, delivers his former opinion, which is to exist considered as an incontrovertible maxim: "Surely, every human being is vanity. Selah." Mark that!

iii. To which he adds a third - the consideration of our present condition in this life. Nosotros and all our fathers are just pilgrims in this life: "I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, every bit all my fathers were." Therefore, spare me.

Religion has always to struggle with difficulties. Though he was confident, Psalms 39:seven, that God was his hope; yet his calamities, his sickness, his enemies, the brevity, fugacity, and troubles of life, come ever into his retentiveness; and, therefore, he prays again for them. And this rises by a climax or gradation: -

i. He prays for audience: "Hear my prayer, O Lord!"

2. That his cry, for such information technology was, be heard: "Requite ear unto my cry."

3. For admission of his tears: "Agree not thy peace at my tears. The reason, as a stranger. Thy grace, thy favour.

4. For some relaxation and ease: "O spare me, that I may recover forcefulness;" which he urges with this motive, "before I go hence, and be no more." Restore me to thy favour in this life. Futurity, it will be likewise late to expect it. Let me not die unsaved!

Bibliographical Data
Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on Psalms 39:13". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/psalms-39.html. 1832.

Bridgeway Bible Commentary

Psalm 38-39 The cries of the sick

The psalmist David felt that sometimes punishment for his sins took the form of sickness (e.1000. Psalms half dozen:0) or opposition from those who envied or hated him (e.g. Psalms 25:0). Both elements announced again in the prayer of Psalms 38:0, which, being a confession of sin, was suitable to be offered with certain sacrifices.

As the suffering David cries to God for mercy, he admits that, because of his sin, he deserves what he has got (38:i-four). He vividly describes the sickness, sores and pain that he has to endure (five-7), but his inner suffering is much greater. Information technology leaves him crushed and repentant before God (8-x). Friends forsake him and enemies plot against him (11-12), simply he bears their slanders as if he cannot hear them and cannot respond to them (xiii-xiv). He can just go out the matter in God'south hands and trust that his downfall volition requite his enemies no cause to gloat over him or dishonour God (xv-17). Although he has confessed his sins, his enemies nonetheless persecute him. He prays that God will not go out him alone in his hour of grief (xviii-22).

Psalms 39:0 views sickness in a different context from the previous psalm. As the psalmist looks dorsum on his sickness, he asserts that he did not want to complain, in case he gave the wicked an excuse for dishonouring God. In the finish, he could restrain himself no longer (39:1-3). His illness made him see how brusque and uncertain life is (4-6). He now sees this every bit all the more reason why he should trust in God and seek his forgiveness. He does non desire to be mocked as one whose faith leaves him with fear and incertitude in the face up of death (seven-8).

In view of all he has been through, the psalmist now asks for relief from his sufferings. The lesson God has taught him is that he should not place too high a value on the temporary things of life (9-eleven). He sees himself every bit a traveller, every bit a passing guest, and prays that his divine host will care for him with fitting kindness in the few days of life that remain (12-13).

Bibliographical Information
Flemming, Donald C. "Commentary on Psalms 39:13". "Fleming'due south Bridgeway Bible Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bbc/psalms-39.html. 2005.

Coffman'due south Commentaries on the Bible

"O spare me, that I may recover forcefulness,

Earlier I go hence and exist no more than."

"The psalmist here no longer wishes for decease, yet he expects it, and requests of God a petty breathing infinite."[23]

"Nothing is to exist made of the expression, `and be no more than,' which was merely David'south fashion of mentioning death."[24] We accept often called attention to the fact that Old Testament heroes certainly believed in the resurrection, although they did not take the brilliant and detailed assurances of information technology which belong to Christians in the New Attestation.

Bibliographical Information
Coffman, James Burton. "Commentary on Psalms 39:13". "Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/psalms-39.html. Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, Texas, The states. 1983-1999.

Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible

O spare me - The word used here - from שׁעה shâ‛âh - means "to look;" and so, in connexion with the preposition, "to expect away from;" and it here ways, "Expect abroad from me;" that is, Do non come to inflict death on me. Preserve me. The idea is this: God seemed to take stock-still his eyes on him, and to exist pursuing him with the expressions of his displeasure (compare Job xvi:nine); and the psalmist at present prays that he would "plough away his optics," and leave him.

That I may recover strength - The word used here - בלג bâlag - means, in Arabic, to be bright; to shine forth; and then, to brand cheerful, to enliven ane'due south eyebrow, or to exist joyful, glad. In Chore ix:27, it is rendered "comfort;" in Chore 10:20, that I "may take comfort;" in Amos 5:9, "strengtheneth." Information technology is non used elsewhere. The idea is that of being "cheered upwardly;" of existence strengthened and invigorated before he should pass abroad. He wished to be permitted to recover the strength which he had lost, and particularly to receive consolation, before he should leave the globe. He desired that his endmost days might not exist nether a cloud, but that he might obtain brighter and more cheerful views, and have more than of the consolations of religion before he should be removed finally from this world. It is a wish not to leave the earth in gloom, or with gloomy and desponding views, but with a cheerful view of the past; with joyful confidence in the government of God; and with bright anticipations of the coming world.

Before I get hence - Before I dice.

And exist no more - Exist no more upon the earth. Compare Psalms 6:v, note; Psalms 30:ix, note. See as well the notes at Job 14:one-12. Whatever may have been his views of the time to come world, he desired to be cheered and comforted in the prospect of passing abroad finally from earth. He was unwilling to become down to the grave in gloom, or under the influence of the dark and distressing views which he had experienced, and to which he refers in this psalm. A religious homo, about to leave the world, should desire to have bright hopes and anticipations. For his own comfort and peace, for the honor of religion, for the glory of God, he should not leave those effectually under the impression that faith does nothing to comfort a dying man, or to inspire with hope the mind of one about to leave the earth, or to requite to the departing friend of God cheerful anticipations of the life to come. A joyful confidence in God and his government, when a man is most to leave the world, does much, very much, to impress the minds of others with a confidence of the truth and reality of religion, equally dark and gloomy views can hardly fail to lead the world to ask what that religion is worth which volition non inspire a dying man with hope, and make him calm in the endmost scene.

Bibliographical Information
Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on Psalms 39:13". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/psalms-39.html. 1870.

Calvin'due south Commentary on the Bible

thirteen Let me alone, that I may recover forcefulness. Literally, information technology is, cease from me, and therefore some explain it, Allow there be a wall raised between the states, that thy manus may not reach me. Others read, equally a supplement, the word optics; but as to the sense, it matters piffling which of the expositions be adopted, for the meaning is the same, That David entreats God to grant him a petty relaxation from his trouble, that he might recover force, or, at least, enjoy a short respite, before he depart from this globe. This concluding verse of the psalm relates to the disquietude and sinful emotions which he had experienced co-ordinate to the mankind; for he seems in the way of complaining of God, to ask that at least time might be granted him to die, as men are wont to speak who are grievously harassed by their illness. I acknowledge, that he speaks in a becoming manner, in acknowledging that in that location is no hope of his being restored to wellness, until God cease to manifest his displeasure; but he errs in this, that he asks a respite, just that he may have time to die. Nosotros might, indeed, regard the prayer as allowable, by understanding it in this sense: Lord, as it will not exist possible for me to endure thy stroke whatever longer, but I must, indeed, miserably perish, if thou continuest to afflict me severely, at to the lowest degree grant me relief for a little season, that in calmness and peace I may commit my soul into thy easily. Just we may easily infer, from the language which he employs, that his mind was and then affected with the bitterness of his grief that he could not present a prayer pure and well seasoned with the sugariness of faith; for he says, before I depart, and be no more: a grade of speech which indicates the feeling almost of despair. Non that David could regard death as the entire anything of human being, or that, renouncing all hope of his salvation, he resigned himself to destruction; but he employs this language, because he had previously been then much depressed by reason of grief, that he could non lift upwards his centre with so much cheerfulness as it behoved him. This is a mode of expression which is to be constitute more than once in the complaints of Job. It is obvious, therefore, that, although David endeavored carefully to restrain the desires of the flesh, notwithstanding these occasioned him and so much disquietude and trouble, that they forced him to exceed the proper limits in his grief.

Bibliographical Information
Calvin, John. "Commentary on Psalms 39:13". "Calvin's Commentary on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/psalms-39.html. 1840-57.

Smith's Bible Commentary

Psalms 39:1-thirteen

Psalms 39:1-13 . Jeduthun was ane of David's musicians, as was Asaph.

I said, I volition have heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my oral fissure with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. I was impaired with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot inside me; while I was musing the burn down burned ( Psalms 39:one-3 ):

Accept you always had that feel where you are just seething inside? While y'all are thinking on information technology you simply offset burning. "While I was musing, while I was thinking on the matter, man, did I burn within." And David said,

and and so I spoke ( Psalms 39:iii ),

Information technology is best not to speak when you are in that shape. But David spoke to the correct person; he spoke to the Lord. He said,

LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am ( Psalms 39:4 ).

God, assistance me to realize that I'm non so manlike equally I recollect. Help me to know my days. God, help me to really number my days. You know, I don't have long. Life is short. If y'all live to exist 70, if y'all continue beyond that information technology'due south going to be with hardship. Lord, teach me to number my days. Help me to realize how frail I am.

Behold, y'all take made my days merely as a handbreadth; and my age is as goose egg before thee ( Psalms 39:five ):

I like that. Don't put any candles on my birthday block. As far as God is concerned my age is as naught.

verily every human at his best state is altogether empty ( Psalms 39:5 ).

Homo, poor homo, so ignorant in that which he knows best. What is your best field of knowledge? What is your particular field of study? What was your major? How much is there to be known in that field in which you major? How much do you know in relationship to all that is to be known in that particular field? I think that, of course, Bible was my major, and I know the Bible better than any other single subject. Simply I'll tell you lot, I am so ignorant in the Bible as far as all that there is to be known about this Word. Human, poor man, so ignorant in that which he knows all-time. "Man at his all-time is altogether empty."

Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps upward riches, but he knows not who's going to spend them. And at present, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was impaired, I opened not my mouth; because you did it ( Psalms 39:6-9 ).

In other words, I didn't mutter confronting the stroke that was upon me, because I knew that it was from you.

Remove thy stroke from me: I am consumed past the accident of your mitt. When you with rebukes right homo for iniquity, you make his beauty to eat away similar a moth: surely every man is empty. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; agree not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover forcefulness, before I go hence, and exist no more ( Psalms 39:ten-13 ). "

Bibliographical Information
Smith, Charles Ward. "Commentary on Psalms 39:13". "Smith's Bible Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/csc/psalms-39.html. 2014.

Dr. Lawman'due south Expository Notes

Psalms 39

David seems to have composed this individual lament during a prolonged disease that nigh proved fatal (cf. Job). He petitioned God to extend his days rather than to continue the chastening. This psalm is quite similar to the preceding ane, merely in this one David did not mention opposition from his enemies.

Jeduthun, mentioned in the title, was one of David's master musicians (1 Chronicles sixteen:41-42). Perhaps David wrote the psalm for Jeduthun to perform or lead, or for the group of musicians under his management.

Bibliographical Information
Constable, Thomas. DD. "Commentary on Psalms 39:thirteen". "Dr. Constable's Expository Notes". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dcc/psalms-39.html. 2012.

Dr. Constable's Expository Notes

In closing, David asked God to remove His chastening, whatever information technology was, then he could savor his terminal years of life. [Notation: See West. A. M. Beuken, "Psalms 39 : Some Aspects of the Old Testament Understanding of Prayer," The Heythrop Periodical xix (1978):1-eleven.]

The brevity of life impresses i increasingly every bit he or she grows older. People are usually more witting of this in times of sorrow than in happy times. It is natural for a believer to want God to teach him or her to live wisely, and want Him to be patient with 1'due south sinfulness in view of life's shortness.

Bibliographical Information
Lawman, Thomas. DD. "Commentary on Psalms 39:13". "Dr. Constable'south Expository Notes". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dcc/psalms-39.html. 2012.

Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

O spare me,.... Or "look from me" f; turn abroad thy fierce countenance from me; or "end from me yard, and let me alone"; every bit in

Job ten:20; from whence the words seem to be taken, by what follows:

that I may recover strength; both corporeal and spiritual:

earlier I go hence; out of this globe by death:

and be no more; that is, among men in the land of the living; not but that he believed he should exist after death, and should be somewhere, even in sky, though he should return no more to the place where he was; run into Job 10:20, when a man is born, he comes into the world; when he dies, he goes out of it; a phrase frequently used for expiry in Scripture; and so the ancient Heathens called expiry "abitio", a going away h.

f השע ממני "respice aliorsum a me", Gejerus; "averte visum a me", Michaelis. thou "Desine a me", Pagninus; "desiste a me", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius "cessa a me", Vatablus. h Fest. Pomp. apud Schindler. Lexic. col. 440.

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Gill, John. "Commentary on Psalms 39:thirteen". "Gill's Exposition of the Unabridged Bible". https://world wide web.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/psalms-39.html. 1999.

Henry's Complete Commentary on the Bible

Confidence in God; David Pleading with God.

      7 And at present, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.   8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: brand me not the reproach of the foolish.   9 I was dumb, I opened not my oral cavity; considering thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke abroad from me: I am consumed past the accident of thine mitt.   11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, m makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.   12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my weep; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I become hence, and exist no more.

      The psalmist, having meditated on the shortness and incertitude of life, and the vanity and vexation of spirit that attend all the comforts of life, here, in these verses, turns his eyes and heart heaven-ward. When there is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature it is to exist constitute in God, and in communion with him; and to him we should be driven by our disappointments in the world. David hither expresses,

      I. His dependence on God, Psalms 39:seven; Psalms 39:7. Seeing all is vanity, and homo himself is so, i. He despairs of a happiness in the things of the globe, and disclaims all expectations from information technology: "At present, Lord, what look I for? Even nothing from the things of sense and fourth dimension; I have nothing to wish for, nothing to hope for, from this globe." Note, The consideration of the vanity and frailty of human life should deaden our desires to the things of this world and lower our expectations from it. "If the globe be such a thing equally this, God deliver me from having, or seeking, my portion in it." We cannot reckon upon constant health and prosperity, nor upon comfort in whatsoever relation; for information technology is all as uncertain as our continuance here. "Though I have sometimes heedlessly promised myself this and the other from the globe, I am at present of another mind." 2. He takes agree of happiness and satisfaction in God: My hope is in thee. Note, When brute-confidences fail, it is our comfort that we have a God to go to, a God to trust to, and we should thereby be quickened to take so much the faster hold of him past faith.

      2. His submission to God, and his cheerful acquiescence in his holy will, Psalms 39:ix; Psalms 39:9. If our hope be in God for a happiness in the other world, we may well beget to reconcile ourselves to all the dispensations of his providence concerning united states in this world: "I was dumb; I opened not my oral cavity in a style of complaint and murmuring." He at present over again recovered that tranquility and sedateness of mind which were disturbed, Psalms 39:ii; Psalms 39:two. Whatsoever comforts he is deprived of, whatever crosses he is encumbered with, he will be piece of cake. "Because 1000 didst it; it did non come to pass by chance, merely according to thy appointment." Nosotros may here see, 1. A good God doing all, and ordering all events concerning u.s.. Of every event we may say, "This is the finger of God; it is the Lord'southward doing," whoever were the instruments. ii. A good man, for that reason, proverb nothing against it. He is impaired, he has naught to object, no question to inquire, no dispute to raise upon it. All that God does is well done.

      Three. His desire towards God, and the prayers he puts up to him. Is any affected? let him pray, as David hither,

      1. For the pardoning of his sin and the preventing of his shame, Psalms 39:viii; Psalms 39:viii. Before he prays (Psalms 39:x; Psalms 39:10), Remove thy stroke from me, he prays (Psalms 39:viii; Psalms 39:8), "Deliver me from all my offences, from the guilt I take contracted, the penalization I have deserved, and the ability of abuse by which I have been enslaved." When God forgives our sins he delivers us from them, he delivers u.s. from them all. He pleads, Make me non a reproach to the foolish. Wicked people are foolish people; and they and then show their folly most when they think to show their wit, past scoffing at God's people. When David prays that God would pardon his sins, and not make him a reproach, it is to be taken equally a prayer for peace of censor ("Lord, leave me not to the power of melancholy, which the foolish volition laugh at me for"), and as a prayer for grace, that God would never leave him to himself, so far as to do any affair that might make him a reproach to bad men. Annotation, This is a skillful reason why we should both watch and pray against sin, because the credit of our profession is nigh concerned in the preservation of our integrity.

      ii. For the removal of his affliction, that he might apace be eased of his nowadays burdens (Psalms 39:10; Psalms 39:10): Remove thy stroke away from me. Annotation, When we are under the correcting paw of God our centre must be to God himself, and non to whatsoever other, for relief. He only that inflicts the stroke can remove it; and we may then in faith, and with satisfaction, pray that our afflictions may be removed, when our sins are pardoned (Isaiah 38:17), and when, as here, the affliction is sanctified and has washed its work, and we are humbled under the hand of God.

      (1.) He pleads the great extremity he was reduced to by his disease, which fabricated him the proper object of God's compassion: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. His sickness prevailed to such a degree that his spirits failed, his forcefulness was wasted, and his body emaciated. "The blow, or conflict, of thy paw has brought me fifty-fifty to the gates of death." Note, The strongest, and boldest, and best of men cannot bear upwards under, much less make caput confronting, the power of God's wrath. It was non his instance only, just any man will notice himself an unequal match for the Almighty, Psalms 39:11; Psalms 39:11. When God, at any time, contends with us, when with rebukes he corrects united states, [one.] We cannot impeach the disinterestedness of his controversy, but must acknowledge that he is righteous in it; for, whenever he corrects human, it is for iniquity. Our ways and our doings procure the trouble to ourselves, and nosotros are beaten with a rod of our own making. It is the yoke of our transgressions, though it exist jump with his manus, Lamentations 1:14. [2.] Nosotros cannot oppose the effects of his controversy, but he will exist besides difficult for the states. Every bit we take zero to motion in arrest of his judgment, so we accept no mode of escaping the execution. God'due south rebukes make man's beauty to consume abroad similar a moth; we often meet, we sometimes feel, how much the torso is weakened and decayed by sickness in a little fourth dimension; the eyebrow is changed; where are the ruby-red cheek and lip, the sprightly center, the lively look, the smiling face up? Information technology is the contrary of all this that presents itself to view. What a poor thing is beauty; and what fools are those that are proud of it, or in love with it, when it will certainly, and may quickly, be consumed thus! Some make the moth to correspond man, who is equally easily crushed as a moth with the touch of a finger, Job 4:19. Others make information technology to represent the divine rebukes, which silently and insensibly waste product and consume united states of america, every bit the moth does the garment. All this abundantly proves what he had said before, that surely every man is vanity, weak and helpless; so he volition exist found when God comes to argue with him.

      (ii.) He pleads the practiced impressions made upon him by his affliction. He hoped that the end was accomplished for which it was sent, and that therefore information technology would be removed in mercy; and unless an affliction has done its work, though it may be removed, it is not removed in mercy. [1.] It had set him a weeping, and he hoped God would accept observe of that. When the Lord God called to mourning, he answered the call and accommodated himself to the dispensation, and therefore could, in faith, pray, Lord, hold not thy peace at my tears, Psalms 39:12; Psalms 39:12 . He that does not willingly afflict and grieve the children of men, much less his ain children, will not concord his peace at their tears, but will either speak deliverance for them (and, if he speak, it is done) or in the mean fourth dimension speak comfort to them and brand them to hear joy and gladness. [2.] It had set him a praying; and afflictions are sent to stir up prayer. If they accept that upshot, and when we are afflicted we pray more, and pray amend, than earlier, nosotros may hope that God volition hear our prayer and requite ear to our cry; for the prayer which by his providence he gives occasion for, and which by his Spirit of grace he indites, shall not return void. [3.] It had helped to wean him from the earth and to have his angel off from it. At present he began, more e'er, to look upon himself as a stranger and sojourner hither, like all his fathers, not at home in this earth, but travelling through information technology to some other, to a better, and would never reckon himself at home till he came to heaven. He pleads it with God: "Lord, take cognizance of me, and of my wants and burdens, for I am a stranger here, and therefore meet with strange usage; I am slighted and oppressed as a stranger; and whence should I expect relief but from thee, from that other country to which I belong?"

      iii. He prays for a reprieve withal a lilliputian longer (Psalms 39:13; Psalms 39:13): "O spare me, ease me, heighten me up from this illness that I may recover strength both in body and listen, that I may go into a more calm and composed frame of spirit, and may be better prepared for another world, earlier I become hence past expiry, and shall be no more than in this world." Some make this to be a passionate wish that God would send him help rapidly or information technology would be too tardily, like that, Job ten:twenty; Job x:21. But I rather accept it as a pious prayer that God would proceed him here till by his grace he had made him fit to become hence, and that he might finish the work of life before his life was finished. Let my soul live, and information technology shall praise thee.

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Bibliographical Information
Henry, Matthew. "Complete Commentary on Psalms 39:xiii". "Henry's Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mhm/psalms-39.html. 1706.

Lectionary Agenda

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Source: https://www.studylight.org/commentary/psalms/39-13.html

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