Psalms 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 21:34And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

Leviticus 25:23And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

2 Kings 20:5Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will heal thee. On the third day thou shall go up to the house of LORD.

Job 13:28Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Psalms 56:8Thou number my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book?

Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to thee.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 39:8-13

Confidence in God; David Pleading with God. 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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