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"Yahweh, make me to know my end, What is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
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A Raw and Honest Prayer
Multiple commentators, including Calvin and Barnes, note that this prayer arises from a place of intense suffering and impatience. The psalmist is not presenting a model of perfect faith but is pouring out his raw, unfiltered, and even sinful frustrations to God. This serves as a powerful reminder that God is a safe recipient for our most honest and difficult emotions, and it is better to direct them toward Him in prayer than to let them fester.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lord, make me to know my end - This clearly expresses the substance of those anxious and troubled thoughts ([Reference Psalms 39:1-…
19th Century
Anglican
Rhythmically, and for every other reason, the psalm from this verse onward must be treated as the utterance to which the poet’s feelings have final…
Baptist
Lord, make me to know mine end,
It is greatly wise for us to be familiar with our last hours. There is much to be discovered in the…
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16th Century
Protestant
O Jehovah! cause me to know my end. It appears from this that David was carried away by an improper and sinful excess of passion, since he…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Lord, make me to know mine end Not Christ, the end of the law for righteousness, as Jerom interprets it; nor how long he shoul…
If an evil thought should arise in the mind, suppress it. Watchfulness as a habit is the bridle upon the head; watchfulness in actions is the hand …
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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…
