Psalms 39:12

Please hear my prayer, Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Don't be deaf to my weeping. Please treat me as your guest, passing through, just like my forefathers.

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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 you discipline us, reprimanding us for our sins, it's like a moth eating up what is precious to us. All of us are just a breath… Selah.

13Please leave me alone so I can be cheerful again, before I am dead and gone.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:34Abraham lived in the country of the Philistines for a long time.

Leviticus 25:23Land must not be permanently sold, because it really belongs to me. To me you are only foreigners and travelers passing through.

2 Kings 20:5“Go back in and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, This is what the Lord, the God of your forefather David, says: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Look! I am going to heal you. In three days time you will go to the Lord's Temple.

Job 13:28I'm falling apart like something rotten, like moth-eaten clothes.

Psalms 56:8You've kept track of all my wanderings. You've collected all my tears in your bottle. You've kept a record of each one.

Psalms 102:1Lord, please hear my prayer, my cry for help!

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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