Psalms 39:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 90:12 : 12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
  • Ps 119:84 : 84 How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?
  • Job 14:13 : 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!
  • Ps 103:14 : 14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    85%

    5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    79%

    46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

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    78%

    3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

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  • Ps 90:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

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  • Ps 39:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

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

  • Ps 102:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    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 39:10
    74%

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

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    74%

    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,

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    74%

    11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

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    73%

    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

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    73%

    5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • Isa 38:10
    73%

    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.

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    73%

    23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

  • Isa 38:12
    73%

    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.

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    73%

    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Job 30:23
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    23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

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    73%

    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.

  • Job 13:23
    72%

    23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

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    72%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

  • Ps 39:7
    72%

    7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • Ps 102:11
    72%

    11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

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    6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

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    9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

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    72%

    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;

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    71%

    24 O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

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

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

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    71%

    20 Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)

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    71%

    8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

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    71%

    4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

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    71%

    33 <HE> O Lord, let me see the way of your rules, and I will keep it to the end.

  • Ps 103:14
    71%

    14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

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    70%

    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

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    70%

    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

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    70%

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

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    70%

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