Psalms 39:11
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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Psalms 39:11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:
As a moth eats up the fur or the cloth, and spoils it, so, when God’s corrections come upon us, our beauty is soon gone. Poor beauty it must be that can so soon go. Lord, let thy beauty be upon us, for no moth can ever eat into that!
Psalms 39:11. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
In the fifth verse, you see that, when the psalmist reached that point, he stopped, and said, "selah," and he does so again here. Striking his lyre with a heavy hand, he has put it out of tune again, so he pauses, and begin to screw the strings up once more. You and I often need to be screwed up like the strings of a harp, to put us in right order before we go on to praise or to pray.