Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner… This is a beautiful world, but there are tears in it. All eyes have them, and they fall fast and often. Their causes are varied. 1. God's rebukes for sins. Therefore repent. 2. The reign of temptation. Seek God's strength. 3. The difficulties in our work for Christ. 4. The condition of society.:But the worst may be reclaimed Blessed is it to make the endeavour. 5. Bereavement. In the Royal Academy there was a small but pathetic picture. It is a coastguardsman's cottage. His beloved wife is dead. There is the table spread for his meal; the young daughter in a black dress is cutting a loaf of bread; his little boy — boy like — is eating away at his dinner; the heart-broken man eats not, but stretches out his hand to touch a little child in a cradle beside him. Here is sorrow, hers is sadness. And there are thousands of such homes. But there are no tears in heaven. (G. W. McCree.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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