Salmi 39:10

10 Toglimi d’addosso il tuo flagello! Io mi consumo sotto i colpi della tua mano.

Salmi 39:10 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 39:10

Remove thy stroke away from me
The psalmist still considers his affliction as coming from the hand of God, as his stroke upon him, and which lay as a heavy burden on him, and which God only could remove; and to him he applies for the removal of it, who is to be sought unto by his people to do such things for them; nor is such an application any ways contrary to that silence and patience before expressed;

I am consumed by the blow of thine hand;
meaning either that his flesh was consumed by his affliction, which came from the hand of God, or he should be consumed if he did not remove it: he could not bear up under it, but must sink and die; if he continued to strive and contend with him, his spirit would fail before him, and the soul that he had made; and therefore he entreats he would remember he was but dust, and remove his hand from him; for this is a reason enforcing the preceding petition.

Salmi 39:10 In-Context

8 Liberami da tutte le mie trasgressioni; non far di me il vituperio dello stolto.

9 Io me ne sto muto, non aprirò bocca, perché sei tu che hai agito.

10 Toglimi d’addosso il tuo flagello! Io mi consumo sotto i colpi della tua mano.

11 Quando castigando l’iniquità tu correggi l’uomo, tu distruggi come la tignuola quel che ha di più caro; certo, ogni uomo non è che vanità. Sela.

12 O Eterno, ascolta la mia preghiera, e porgi l’orecchio al mio grido; non esser sordo alle mie lacrime; poiché io sono uno straniero presso a te, un pellegrino, come tutti i miei padri.