Psalms 39:8

“Deliver me from all my transgressions, etc.] Which were the cause and occasion of all his distresses, inward and outward; and the deliverance prayed for includes a freedom from the dominion of sin, which is by the power of efficacious grace; and from the guilt of sin, which is by the application of the blood of Christ; and from obligation to punishment for it, or deliverance from wrath to come, which is through Christ’s being made a curse, and enduring wrath in the room and stead of his people; and from the very being of sin, which, though it cannot be expected in this life, is desirable: and the psalmist prays that he might be delivered from “all” his transgressions; knowing: that if one of…”

“Patiently submissive, he prays for the removal of his chastisement, and that he may not be a reproach.”

“Deliver me from all my transgressions - Recognising, as in Psalms 38:3-5, his sins as the source of all his troubles and sorrows. If his transgressions were forgiven, he felt assured that his trouble would be removed. His first petition, therefore, is, that his sins might be pardoned, with the implied conscious assurance that then it would be consistent and proper for God to remove his calamity, and deliver him from the evils which had come upon him. Make me not the reproach of the foolish - Of the wicked; of those who are foolish, because they are wicked. See the notes at Psalms 14:1. The prayer here is, that God would not suffer him to become an object of reproach to wicked and foolish…”

“39:8 The idea that rebellion brings on suffering is a common thread in Pss 32, 38–41.”

“Deliver: Psa 25:11, Psa 25:18, Psa 51:7-10, Psa 51:14, Psa 65:3, Psa 130:8; Mic 7:19; Mat 1:21; Tit 2:14 make: Psa 35:21, Psa 44:13, Psa 57:3, Psa 79:4, Psa 119:39; Sa2 16:7, Sa2 16:8; Joe 2:17, Joe 2:19; Rom 2:23, Rom 2:24 Psalms 39:9”