Psalms 39:10 meaning and explanation

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

Psalms 39:10, Berean Standard Bible

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David is speaking to God in a psalm set among the wicked, where he has resolved to guard his tongue and then breaks his silence to plead. In verse 10 he asks God to lift the blow that is crushing him, naming it God's own scourge and God's hand.

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