Psalms Chapter 39 verse 8 Holy Bible
Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.
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Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
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Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.
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From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Deliver me from all my transgressions. The approach to God quickens in every God-fearing man the sense of sin and the longing for pardon. So the psalmist has no sooner thrown himself upon God as his one Hope, than the thought of his sin occurs to him - the sin which has brought upon him all his misery; and his first prayer is to be "delivered" from it. Make me not the reproach of the foolish. So long as his afflictions continued, the psalmist would be an object of scorn to the fool and the un = godly. He prays, therefore, secondly, that the punishment of his sin may cease.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Here the psalmist recurs to his initial thought, but lets us see deeper down into his heart. It was no mere fancy that if he gave vent to his feelings the wicked might find cause for reproach; the cause was there in his own consciousness of transgression.The reproach of the foolish.--Better, The scorn of the fool. (Comp. Psalm 22:6.)