Psalms 39:13

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.””

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BSBPD

“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 39:13 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 5:24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
  2. Genesis 42:36Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
  3. Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
  4. Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
  5. 2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  6. 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  7. Job 7:19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
  8. Job 10:20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
  9. Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
  10. Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
  11. Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.
  12. Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

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