Psalms 39:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

Psalms 39:7 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Psalms 38:15
For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Psalms 119:81
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Genesis 49:18
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Psalms 119:166
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

Topics

Assurance Atheism Believing Faith Fear God Graces Hope

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-13)

The psalmist, having meditated on the shortness and uncertainty of life, and the vanity and vexation of spirit that attend all the comforts of life, here, in these verses, turns his eyes and heart heaven-ward. When there is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature it is to be found in God, and in communion with him; and to him we should be driven by our disappointments in the world. David h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

4-7. Some take these words as those of fretting, but they are not essentially such. The tinge of discontent arises from the character of his suppressed emotions. But, addressing God, they are softened and subdued. make me to know mine end--experimentally appreciate. how frail I am--literally, “when I shall cease.”