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 · 2000Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
KJV
King James Version · 1611O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Let 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 · 1862Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For 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 · 1890Look 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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