Psalms 39:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Psalms 39:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 44:13
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 130:8
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Psalms 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Psalms 65:3
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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. 8)

8-10. Patiently submissive, he prays for the removal of his chastisement, and that he may not be a reproach.