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Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
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Submission Allows for Prayer
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this verse demonstrates a vital truth: true submission to God's will (v. 9) does not mean silent resignation. Instead, it creates the foundation for bold and honest prayer. Like Jesus in Gethsemane, the psalmist can say "Your will be done" and also "Please take this suffering from me." Submission isn't the end of prayer; it's the proper beginning.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Remove thy stroke away from me - And yet this calm submission, as expressed in (Psalms 39:9), does not take away the de…
19th Century
Anglican
Stroke. —See Note to Psalms 38:11.
Blow. —Margin, “conflict.” A word only found here; from a root meaning <…
Baptist
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
When God strikes, he never plays at chastisement, and there…
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16th Century
Protestant
Take away thy stroke from me. David here confirms the prayer he had already presented: namely, that having obtained pardon from God, he mi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Remove your stroke away from me The psalmist still considers his affliction as coming from the hand of God, as his s…
There is no solid satisfaction to be gained from the creature; but it is to be found in the Lord, and in communion with him. We should be driven to…
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13th Century
Catholic
The psalmist confessed that he suffered affliction for his sin; now here he promises caution in the future.
The title is for th…
