Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
Parallel translations
- WEB Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
- KJV Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
- BSB Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
- NASB “Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.
- NLT But please stop striking me! I am exhausted by the blows from your hand.
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Quick answer
David pleads for God to lift His chastening hand, for he is overwhelmed by it. He acknowledges the blow as God's discipline.
Overview
Submission does not silence prayer; David still asks for relief from the weight of God's hand. He owns the affliction as the Lord's discipline yet seeks mercy. Believers may both accept God's correction and plead for its lifting.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Job 9:34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
- Job 13:21withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
- Ps 38:3–4There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- Ps 25:16–17Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
- Ps 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- 1 Sam 6:5Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.
- Job 40:8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
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