Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O YHWH, || And give ear [to] my cry, || Do not be silent to my tear, || For I [am] a sojourner with You, || A settler like all my fathers.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
13Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Cross References
Genesis 21:34and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.
Leviticus 25:23And the land is not sold—to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for you [are] sojourners and settlers with Me;
2 Kings 20:5“Return, and you have said to Hezekiah, leader of My people, Thus said YHWH, God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tear, behold, I give healing to you. On the third day you go up to the house of YHWH;
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, || A moth has consumed him as a garment.”
Psalms 56:8You have counted my wandering, || You place my tear in Your bottle, || Are they not in Your scroll?
Psalms 102:1A PRAYER OF THE AFFLICTED WHEN HE IS FEEBLE, AND POURS OUT HIS COMPLAINT BEFORE YHWH. O YHWH, hear my prayer, indeed, my cry comes to You.
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 →