Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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Gill's Exposition
Remove thy stroke away from me,.... The psalmist still considers his affliction as coming from the hand of God, as his stroke upon him, and which lay as a heavy burden on him, and which God only could…
Barnes' Notes
Remove thy stroke away from me - And yet this calm submission, as expressed in Psa 39:9, does not take away the desire that the hand of God may be removed, and that the suffering that is brought upon…
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…
Petition for relief (10, 11) and respite (12, 13).
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