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Psalm 39:10

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

8Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
12“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
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Notice

The plea to remove God's scourge can be hard to read: the psalmist understands his suffering as God's correction and asks that same God for relief.

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Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Job 9:34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;Both prayers ask God to remove an instrument of suffering: Job names a rod, and the psalmist names a scourge.
Job 13:21withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.Both speakers ask for relief from God's hand, describing its weight through terror or the force of a blow.
Psalm 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.Both psalms describe God's hand as a crushing weight that leaves the speaker without strength.
Psalm 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.Both speakers attribute their suffering to God; Psalm 38 names indignation and sin, while Psalm 39 names his scourge and hand.
Psalm 25:16–17Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.Both speakers turn to God in affliction, asking him for mercy or the removal of suffering.
Job 36:18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.These verses share little explicit language: one asks God to remove suffering; the other warns against riches, wrath, and bribery.
Jeremiah 14:17“You shall say this word to them: “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with …Both passages describe severe suffering through the language of injury: a blow in the psalm and a grievous wound in Jeremiah.
1 Samuel 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 …Both passages speak of relief as the lifting of God's hand from those suffering under it.
Job 2:5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”Both connect God's hand with suffering; Job's speaker predicts rejection of God, while the psalmist asks God for relief.
Isaiah 38:13I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.Both speakers describe God as the source of devastating blows, using stark language for suffering that overwhelms them.
Where this verse fits

Illness or diagnosis. guilt and confession. feeling distant from God.

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Encouragement

The psalmist asks the God whose hand has overcome him to remove the blow. Even here, overwhelmed and under correction, he still addresses God with a plea for relief.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).