Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
13Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
Cross References
Genesis 21:34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
Leviticus 25:23And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
2 Kings 20:5Return, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith Jehovah, 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 shalt go up to the house of Jehovah;
Job 13:28One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
Psalms 56:8*Thou* countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psalms 102:1{A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before Jehovah.} Jehovah, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto 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 →