Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Cross References
Genesis 21:34And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
2 Kings 20:5“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
Psalms 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?
Psalms 102:1A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before 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 →