Psalms 39:8

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Deliver {H5337} me from all my transgressions {H6588}: make {H7760}{H8799)} me not the reproach {H2781} of the foolish {H5036}.

Rescue me from all my transgressions; don't make me the butt of fools.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 44:13 (5 votes)

    Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

  • Psalms 79:4 (3 votes)

    We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

  • Psalms 65:3 (2 votes)

    Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

  • 2 Samuel 16:7 (2 votes)

    And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:

  • 2 Samuel 16:8 (2 votes)

    The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou [art taken] in thy mischief, because thou [art] a bloody man.

  • Matthew 1:21 (2 votes)

    And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

  • Psalms 51:7 (2 votes)

    ¶ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.