Psalms 39:13

What does Psalms 39:13 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 39:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.

Context

v.12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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.

  • Job 7:19

    How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

  • Job 14:5

    Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  • Job 14:10

    But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

  • Genesis 5:24

    and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

  • Job 10:20

    Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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