Psalms 39:12. Hear my prayer, O LORD,
David is dumb, yet he prays, dumb as to complaints, but eloquent as to pleading with his God.
Psalms 39:12. And give ear unto my cry; -
The psalmist goes from pleading to crying, and believers often thus intensify their prayers. There is something more sorrowful, more earnest, more prevalent, about crying unto God than mere ordinary praying: "Give ear unto my cry;" -
Psalms 39:12. Hold not thy peace at my tears: -
David goes further still, for the most eloquent things in the world are tears. They are the irresistible weapons of weakness. Many a woman, many a beggar, many a child, has gained by tears what could not be obtained in any other way; so David pleaded most powerfully when he prayed, "Hold not thy peace at my tears:" -
Psalms 39:12. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
"Thou dost entertain me in thy tent as I have entertained wanderers many a time. I have broken bread with thee, and eaten of thy salt, be kind to the stranger and sojourner as thou hast bidden thy servants to be." Or does David mean that, as God is a stranger in his own world, so are we while necessarily passing through it?
Psalms 39:12. Hear my prayer, O LORD,
David is dumb, yet he prays, dumb as to complaints, but eloquent as to pleading with his God.
Psalms 39:12. And give ear unto my cry; -
The psalmist goes from pleading to crying, and believers often thus intensify their prayers. There is something more sorrowful, more earnest, more prevalent, about crying unto God than mere ordinary praying: "Give ear unto my cry;" -
Psalms 39:12. Hold not thy peace at my tears: -
David goes further still, for the most eloquent things in the world are tears. They are the irresistible weapons of weakness. Many a woman, many a beggar, many a child, has gained by tears what could not be obtained in any other way; so David pleaded most powerfully when he prayed, "Hold not thy peace at my tears:" -
Psalms 39:12. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
"Thou dost entertain me in thy tent as I have entertained wanderers many a time. I have broken bread with thee, and eaten of thy salt, be kind to the stranger and sojourner as thou hast bidden thy servants to be." Or does David mean that, as God is a stranger in his own world, so are we while necessarily passing through it?