A moment in scripture
Psalms 39:12
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Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 39:10
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
- Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.