Psalms 39:12
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.
King James Version
In Context
13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Cross References
Genesis 21:34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
Leviticus 25:23The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
2 Kings 20:5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Psalms 56:8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
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 →