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10 Remove from me your affliction.
By the opposition of your hand I perish.
11 When with rebukes you chastise a man for sin,
you[a] consume[b] like a moth his delightful things.
Surely everyone is a mere vapor.[c] Selah
12 Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen to my cry for help;
do not be deaf to my tears.
For I am an alien[d] with you,
a sojourner like all my ancestors.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:11 Hebrew “and/then you”
  2. Psalm 39:11 Literally “cause to melt”
  3. Psalm 39:11 The word translated “vanity” in vv. 6, 7
  4. Psalm 39:12 Or “stranger”
  5. Psalm 39:12 Or “fathers”