Psalms 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
In Context
7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
Cross References
Psalms 25:11For your name’s sake, LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
Psalms 35:21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalms 57:3He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 130:6My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 39:8-13
Confidence in God; David Pleading with God. 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou 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 cry; hold… Read the whole commentary →