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Psalms 39:4
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“Lord, make me aware of my endand the number of my daysso that I will know how short-lived I am.
"LORD, make me to know my end, What is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
Lord , make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
"O Lord , make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
" Lord , tell me when the end will come and how long I will live. Let me know how long I have.
"O Lord , help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
"LORD, let me know my [life's] end And [to appreciate] the extent of my days; Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].
"LORD, let me know my end, And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.
"Yahweh, make me to know my end, What is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.
"Yahweh, cause me to know my endAnd what is the extent of my days;Let me know how transient I am.
"Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
"Please, Lord , show me my future. Will I soon be gone?
My heart grew hot within me; whenever I thought of it, the fire burned. Then, [at last,] I let my tongue speak:
Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
Lord , tell me, what will happen to me now? Tell me, how long will I live? Let me know how short my life really is.
LORD, show me mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know my destiny.
" Lord , how long will I live? When will I die? Tell me how soon my life will end."
"Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I am."
O Jehovah, make me to know my end and the limit of my days, what it is . Let me know how lacking I am .
My hert was hote within me, & whyle I was thus musynge, the fyre kyndled: so that I spake with my tonge.
Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.
Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
My heart waxed hot within me; while I was musing, the fire kindled; then spoke I with my tongue:
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am.
O God make me to knowe mine ende, and the number of my dayes: that I may be certified howe long I haue to lyue.
O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how frail I am.
I spak in my tunge; Lord, make thou myn eende knowun to me. And the noumbre of my daies what it is; that Y wite, what failith to me.
Yahweh, make me to know my end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it [is]; [that] I may know how frail I [am].
"LORD, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am.
"O Lord, let me know my end and how many days I have to live. Let me know that I do not have long to stay here.
" Lord , let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.
Let me know, O Yahweh, mine end, And the measure of my days - what it is, I would know how short-lived I am.
(38-5) I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.
"LORD, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is!
`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it [is],' I know how frail I [am].
"Tell me, what's going on, God ? How long do I have to live? Give me the bad news! You've kept me on pretty short rations; my life is string too short to be saved. Oh! we're all puffs of air. Oh! we're all shadows in a campfire. Oh! we're just spit in the wind. We make our pile, and then we leave it.
" Lord , make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.
Contextual Overview
For Jeduthun, the choir director: A psalm of David.
I said to myself, "I will watch what I do and not sin in what I say. I will hold my tongue when the ungodly are around me." 2 But as I stood there in silence— not even speaking of good things— the turmoil within me grew worse. 3 The more I thought about it, the hotter I got, igniting a fire of words: 4 " Lord , remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered— how fleeting my life is. 5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath." Interlude 6 We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
make: Psalms 90:12, Psalms 119:84, Job 14:13
how frail I am: or, what time I have here
Reciprocal: Job 7:1 - Is there Job 14:5 - his days 1 Corinthians 7:29 - the time
Cross-References
But Abram replied, "O Sovereign Lord , what good are all your blessings when I don't even have a son? Since you've given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth.
"My lord," he said, "if it pleases you, stop here for a while.
"You have been so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have shown such great kindness. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die.
One day Abraham said to his oldest servant, the man in charge of his household, "Take an oath by putting your hand under my thigh.
and now I own cattle, donkeys, flocks of sheep and goats, and many servants, both men and women. I have sent these messengers to inform my lord of my coming, hoping that you will be friendly to me.'"
"And what were all the flocks and herds I met as I came?" Esau asked. Jacob replied, "They are a gift, my lord, to ensure your friendship."
But Jacob insisted, "No, if I have found favor with you, please accept this gift from me. And what a relief to see your friendly smile. It is like seeing the face of God!
This pleased Potiphar, so he soon made Joseph his personal attendant. He put him in charge of his entire household and everything he owned.
From the day Joseph was put in charge of his master's household and property, the Lord began to bless Potiphar's household for Joseph's sake. All his household affairs ran smoothly, and his crops and livestock flourished.
But Joseph refused. "Look," he told her, "my master trusts me with everything in his entire household.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lord, make me to know mine end,.... Not Christ, the end of the law for righteousness, as Jerom interprets it; nor how long he should live, how many days, months, and years more; for though they are known of God, they are not to be known by men; but either the end of his afflictions, or his, latter end, his mortal state, that he might be more thoughtful of that, and so less concerned about worldly things, his own external happiness, or that of others; or rather his death; see Job 6:11; and his sense is, that he might know death experimentally; or that he might die: this he said in a sinful passionate way, as impatient of his afflictions and exercises; and in the same way the following expressions are to be understood;
and the measure of my days, what it [is]; being desirous to come to the end of it; otherwise he knew it was but as an hand's breadth, as he says in Psalms 39:5;
[that] I may know how frail I [am]; or "what time I have here"; or "when I shall cease to be" u; or, as the Targum is, "when I shall cease from the world"; so common it is for the saints themselves, in an angry or impatient fit, to desire death; see Job 7:15; and a very rare and difficult thing it is to wish for it from right principles, and with right views, as the Apostle Paul did, Philippians 1:23.
u ×× ××× ×× × "quanti aevi ego", Montanus; "quamdiu roundanus ero", Vatablus; "quam brevis temporis sim", Musculus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Lord, make me to know mine end - This expresses evidently the substance of those anxious and troubled thoughts Psalms 39:1-2 to which he had been unwilling to give utterance. His thoughts turned on the shortness of life; on the mystery of the divine arrangement by which it had been made so short; and on the fact that so many troubles and sorrows had been crowded into a life so frail and so soon to terminate. With some impatience, and with a consciousness that he had been indulging feelings on this subject which were not proper, and which would do injury if they were expressed âbefore men,â he now pours out these feelings before God, and asks what is to be the end of this; how long this is to continue; when his own sorrows will cease. It was an impatient desire to know when the end would be, with a spirit of insubmission to the arrangements of Providence by which his life had been made so brief, and by which so much suffering had been appointed.
And the measure of my days, what it is - How long I am to live; how long I am to bear these accumulated sorrows.
That I may know how frail I am - Margin: âWhat time I have here.â Prof. Alexander renders this: âwhen I shall cease.â So DeWette. The Hebrew word used here - ××× chaÌdeÌl - means âceasing to be;â hence, âfrail;â then, destitute, left, forsaken. An exact translation would be, âthat I may know at what (time) or (point) I am ceasing, or about to cease.â It is equivalent to a prayer that he might know when these sufferings - when a life so full of sorrow - would come to an end. The language is an expression of impatience; the utterance of a feeling which the psalmist knew was not right in itself, and which would do injury if expressed before men, but which the intensity of his feelings would not permit him to restrain, and to which he, therefore, gives utterance before God. Similar expressions of impatience in view of the sufferings of a life so short as this, and with so little to alleviate its sorrows, may be seen much amplified in Job 3:1-26; Job 6:4-12; Job 7:7; Job 14:1-13. Before we blame the sacred writers for the indulgence of these feelings, let us carefully examine our own hearts, and recall what has passed through our own minds in view of the mysteries of the divine administration; and let us remember that one great object of the Bible is to record the actual feelings of men - not to vindicate them, but to show what human nature is even in the best circumstances, and what the human heart is when as yet but partially sanctified.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 39:4. Lord, make me to know mine end — I am weary of life; I wish to know the measure of my days, that I may see how long I have to suffer, and how frail I am. I wish to know what is wanting to make up the number of the days I have to live.
