Psalms 39:4
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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Psalms 39:4. LORD,
If you must speak, address your words to the Lord. So David does, he does not speak to the wicked, but he prays to God most holy.
Psalms 39:4. Make me to know mine end,
Did he wish to die? Perhaps so; you remember that one of the two men who never died once prayed that he might die. Elijah did so; and David does so here, I think, if I put a hard construction on his speech: "Lord, make me to know mine end." But if I read it more tenderly, I may make it to mean, "Lord, help me to recollect that my sorrows will not last for ever! That thought will tone them down, and keep them in cheek. ‘Make me to know mine end.’"