10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

[This Psalm] Continues the lamentation of Ps. XXXV11I. But with the same hopeful waiting (verse 7) as in Ps. XXXV11. Man is vanity and his longest age nothing if dissociated from God — Life is in union with God. Cf. Ps. XXXV11: 34 and XL: I.

Psalm 40

I WAITED patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth,

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