Psalms 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Lord; attend to my cry for help. Hold not your peace at my tears. For I am but a guest of yours, a stranger visiting, like all my ancestors.

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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 rebuke someone to punish their sins, you consume, like a moth, what they tresure. Everyone is only a breath. Selah

13Look away from me, let me smile again, before I die and am gone.

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Cross References

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

Psalms 56:8You yourself count my wanderings. Put in your bottle my tears are they not in your book?

Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry for help come 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 →

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