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Psalms 39:8

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

KJV

tunc dixi : Ecce venio. In capite libri scriptum est de me,

Vulgate

τότε εἶπον Ἰδοὺ ἥκω, ἐν κεφαλίδι βιβλίου γέγραπται περὶ ἐμοῦ·

LXX

Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

ASV

וְ/עַתָּ֣ה מַה קִּוִּ֣יתִי אֲדֹנָ֑/י תּ֝וֹחַלְתִּ֗/י לְ/ךָ֣ הִֽיא

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
י
y
noun · 440×
י
y
noun · 6×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
עַתָּ֗ה
'th
adverb · 433×
קַוֵּ֥ה
qvh
verb · 48×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Joel 2:17 — Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over
  • Joel 2:19 — Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
  • Mic 7:19 — He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
  • Ps 44:13 — Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
  • Ps 51:7 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  • Ps 51:14 — Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
  • Ps 57:3 — He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
  • Ps 65:3 — Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
  • Ps 74:18 — Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
  • Ps 79:4 — We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
  • Ps 119:22 — Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
  • Ps 119:39 — Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
  • Ps 130:8 — And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.