Psalms 39:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:20-21 : 20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure, 21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he? 11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
  • Job 14:5-6 : 5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go; 6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
  • Gen 5:24 : 24 And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.
  • Gen 42:36 : 36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.
  • Job 7:19 : 19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

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  • 12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

  • 20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • 13 Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

  • 9 Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

  • 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • 19 Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

  • 4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

  • 10 Give ear to me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: Lord, be my helper.

  • Ps 38:21-22
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    21 Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

    22 Come quickly to give me help, O Lord, my salvation.

  • Isa 38:10-12
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    10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

    11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

    12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • 13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • Ps 102:23-24
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    23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

    24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

  • Ps 38:9-10
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    9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

    10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • 19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

  • 3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

  • 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

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    2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.

  • 11 Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

  • 17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • 16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

  • 11 Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.

  • 9 Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

  • 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • 15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

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    4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

  • Ps 13:3-4
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    3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

    4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • 22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • 26 Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

  • Job 13:20-21
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    20 Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

    21 Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

  • 9 Then he said to me, Come here to my side, and put me to death, for the pain of death has me in its grip but my life is still strong in me.

  • 16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.

  • 18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

  • 13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

  • 4 I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

  • 11 Give me life, O Lord, because of your name; in your righteousness take my soul out of trouble.

  • 6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

  • 49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

  • 22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.