Psalms 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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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 with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go behind, and be no more.

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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 all of you are strangers and sojourners with me.

2 Kings 20:5Return, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you: on the third day you shall go up unto the house of the LORD.

Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Psalms 56:8You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?

Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto 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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