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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 39:10

"Won't you stop punishing me? You have worn me down.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affliction, Prayer under;   Anger of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Jeduthun;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeduthun;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moth;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blow;   Dumb;   Psalms, Book of;   Wrath (Anger);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Remove your torment from me.Because of the force of your hand I am finished.
Hebrew Names Version
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
King James Version
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
English Standard Version
Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
New Century Version
Quit punishing me; your beating is about to kill me.
New English Translation
Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
Amplified Bible
"Remove Your plague from me; I am wasting away because of the conflict and opposition of Your hand.
New American Standard Bible
"Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.
World English Bible
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.
Legacy Standard Bible
Remove Your plague from me;Because of the opposition of Your hand I am wasting away.
Berean Standard Bible
Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am silent, I keep my mouth shut, because it is you who have done it.
Darby Translation
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Easy-to-Read Version
But please stop punishing me. You will destroy me if you do not stop.
George Lamsa Translation
Remove thy scourges from me; I am stricken by the blow of thy hand.
Good News Translation
Don't punish me any more! I am about to die from your blows.
Lexham English Bible
Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish.
Literal Translation
Turn away Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I kepe sylece, and open not my mouth, for thou hast done it. Turne thy plages awaye fro me, for I am cosumed thorow the feare of thy hade.
American Standard Version
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Bible in Basic English
No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am dumb, I open not my mouth; because Thou hast done it.
King James Version (1611)
Remooue thy stroke away from mee: I am consumed by the blowe of thine hand.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thine hand.
English Revised Version
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
remoue thou thi woundis fro me.
Update Bible Version
Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
Webster's Bible Translation
Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
New King James Version
Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
New Living Translation
But please stop striking me! I am exhausted by the blows from your hand.
New Life Bible
Do not punish me any more. I am growing weak by the beatings of Your hand.
New Revised Standard
Remove your stroke from me; I am worn down by the blows of your hand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Remove from off me thy stroke, Because of the hostility of thy hand, am, I, consumed.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(38-11) Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
Revised Standard Version
Remove thy stroke from me; I am spent by the blows of thy hand.
Young's Literal Translation
Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.

Contextual Overview

7 "What am I waiting for? I depend on you, Lord! 8 Save me from my sins. Don't let fools sneer at me. 9 You treated me like this, and I kept silent, not saying a word. 10 "Won't you stop punishing me? You have worn me down. 11 You punish us severely because of our sins. Like a moth, you destroy what we treasure most. We are as frail as a breath. 12 "Listen, Lord , to my prayer! My eyes are flooded with tears, as I pray to you. I am merely a stranger visiting in your home as my ancestors did. 13 Stop being angry with me and let me smile again before I am dead and gone."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remove: Psalms 25:16, Psalms 25:17, 1 Samuel 6:5, Job 9:34, Job 13:21

I am consumed: Psalms 38:3, Psalms 38:4

blow: Heb. conflict, Job 40:8

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:13 - the hand Job 2:5 - put forth Job 7:16 - let me alone Job 36:18 - his Psalms 32:4 - hand Psalms 38:2 - thy hand Isaiah 38:13 - as a lion Isaiah 38:15 - What Jeremiah 14:17 - with a very Acts 13:11 - hand

Cross-References

Genesis 39:8
but he refused and said, "My master isn't worried about anything in his house, because he has placed me in charge of everything he owns.
Proverbs 1:15
Don't follow anyone like that or do what they do.
Proverbs 2:16
Wisdom will protect you from the smooth talk of a sinful woman,
Proverbs 5:3
The words of an immoral woman may be as sweet as honey and as smooth as olive oil.
Proverbs 5:8
Stay away from a bad woman! Don't even go near the door of her house.
Proverbs 7:5
They will protect you from the flattering words of someone else's wife.
Proverbs 7:13
She grabbed him and kissed him, and with no sense of shame, she said:
Proverbs 9:14
She sits in front of her house and on the highest hills in the town.
Proverbs 9:16
"If you are stupid, come on inside!" And to every fool she says,
Proverbs 22:14
The words of a bad woman are like a deep pit; if you make the Lord angry, you will fall right in.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remove thy stroke away from me - And yet this calm submission, as expressed in Psalms 39:9, does not take away the desire that the hand of God may be removed, and that the suffering that is brought upon us may cease. Perfect submission is not inconsistent with the prayer that, if it be the will of God, the calamity may be removed: Luke 22:42. On the word here rendered “stroke” - נגע nega‛ - see the notes at Psalms 38:11. It is equivalent here to chastisement, or judgment. It refers to the trial which he was then enduring, whatever it was, which had given occasion to the feelings that he says Psalms 39:1-2 he had felt bound to suppress when in the presence of the wicked, but in reference to which he had learned entirely to acquiesce Psalms 39:9. From that trial itself he now prays that he may be delivered.

I am consumed - I am wasting away. I cannot long bear up under it. I must sink down to the grave if it is not removed. See Psalms 39:13.

By the blow of thine hand - Margin, as in Hebrew: “conflict.” That is, the blow which God brings on anyone when he has, as it were, a “strife” or a “conflict” with him. It is designed here to express his affliction, as if God had “struck” him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 39:10. Remove thy stroke away from me — This seems to be a figure taken from gladiators, or persons contending in single combat. One is wounded so as to be able to maintain the fight no longer: he therefore gives in, and prays his adversary to spare his life. I am conquered; I can hold the contest no longer: thou art too powerful for me. He cries what our ancestors used to term craven; the word spoken by him who was conquered in the battle ordeal, or trial by combat.


 
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