My Hope is in You
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I was silent and still; I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse,
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my heart became hot within me. While I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
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"Lord, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.
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You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. (Selah)
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Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up, and do not know who will gather.
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"And now, O Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
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Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool.
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I am silent; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.
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Remove your stroke from me; I am worn down by the blows of your hand.
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"You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. (Selah)
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"Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.
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Psalm 39:2-12 Meaning and Commentary
To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, a Psalm of David. Some take Jeduthun to be the name of a musical instrument, as Jarchi, on which, and others the first word of a song, to the tune of which, this psalm was sung, as Aben Ezra; though it seems best, with Kimchi and others, to understand it as the name of the chief musician, to whom this psalm was sent to be made use of in public service; since Jeduthun was, with his sons, appointed by David to prophesy with harps and psalteries, and to give praise and thanks unto the Lord, 1 Chronicles 16:41; he is the same with Ethan {s}. The occasion of it is thought, by some, to be the rebellion of his son Absalom; so Theodoret thinks it was written when he fled from Absalom, and was cursed by Shimei; or rather it may be some sore affliction, which lay upon David for the chastisement of him; see Psalm 39:9; and the argument of the psalm seems to be much the same with that of the preceding one, as Kimchi observes.
{s} Vid. Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 513, 805.
{s} Vid. Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 513, 805.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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- [a] Heb [hostility]
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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