Psalms 39:12
“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”
Cross References
Genesis 21:34Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
Leviticus 25:23“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
2 Kings 20:5“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘The LORD, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to the LORD’s house.
Job 13:28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Psalms 56:8You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry 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 →