Psalms 39:8

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁷And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You. ⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.⁹I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because it is You who have done this. ¹⁰Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand. ¹¹You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah ¹²Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a sojourner like all my fathers. ¹³Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more."

Bible Verse Review
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Deliver: Psalms 25:11, Psalms 25:18, Psalms 51:7-10, Psalms 51:14, Psalms 65:3, Psalms 130:8, Micah 7:19, Matthew 1:21, Titus 2:14

make: Psalms 35:21, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 79:4, Psalms 119:39, 2 Samuel 16:7, 2 Samuel 16:8, Joel 2:17, Joel 2:19, Romans 2:23, Romans 2:24

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:21 - Thy servant Psalms 74:18 - the foolish Psalms 119:22 - Remove Proverbs 11:23 - desire Jeremiah 31:18 - Thou hast

Cross-References

Genesis 39:3
When his master saw that the LORD was with him and made him prosper in all he did,

Genesis 39:8
But he refused. "Look," he said to his master's wife, "with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Genesis 39:13
When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,

Genesis 39:16
So Potiphar's wife kept Joseph's garment beside her until his master came home.

Genesis 39:18
but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."

Genesis 39:19
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," he burned with anger.

Genesis 39:20
So Joseph's master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king's prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,

Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

Proverbs 6:29
So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Deliver me from all my transgressions,.... Which were the cause and occasion of all his distresses, inward and outward; and the deliverance prayed for includes a freedom from the dominion of sin, which is by the power of efficacious grace; and from the guilt of sin, which is by the application of the blood of Christ; and from obligation to punishment for it, or deliverance from wrath to come, which is through Christ's being made a curse, and enduring wrath in the room and stead of his people; and from the very being of sin, which, though it cannot be expected in this life, is desirable: and the psalmist prays that he might be delivered from "all" his transgressions; knowing: that if one of them was left to have dominion over him, or the guilt of it to lie upon him, and he be obliged to undergo due punishment for it, he must be for ever miserable;

make me not the reproach of the foolish; of a Nabal; meaning not any particular person; as Esau, according to Jarchi; or Absalom, as others; but every foolish man, that is, a wicked man; such who deny the being and providence of God, make a mock at sin, and scoff at the saints: and the sense of the psalmist is, that the Lord would keep him from sinning, and deliver him out of all his afflictions, on account of which he was reproached by wicked men.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deliver me from all my transgressions - Recognising, as in Psalms 38:3-5, his sins as the source of all his troubles and sorrows. If his transgressions were forgiven, he felt assured that his trouble would be removed. His first petition, therefore, is, that his sins might be pardoned, with the implied conscious assurance that then it would be consistent and proper for God to remove his calamity, and deliver him from the evils which had come upon him.

Make me not the reproach of the foolish - Of the wicked; of those who are foolish, because they are wicked. See the notes at Psalms 14:1. The prayer here is, that God would not suffer him to become an object of reproach to wicked and foolish men; that is, as the passage implies, that God would not so continue to treat him as if he were a sinner as to justify to themselves their reproaches of him as a wicked man. In other words, he prays that God would forgive his sin, and would withdraw his hand of affliction, so that even the wicked might see that he was not angry with him, but that he was an object of the divine favor.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 39:8. Deliver one from all my transgressions — I seek the pardon of my sins; I expect it from thy mercy. Grant it, "that I be not the reproach of the foolish," (the godless and the profane,) who deride my expectation, and say no such blessings can be had. Let them know, by thy saving me, that there is a God who heareth prayer, and giveth his Holy Spirit to all them that ask him.