Psalm 39:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not Your peace at my tears! For I am Your passing guest, a temporary resident, as all my fathers were.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Common English Bible

¹² Hear my prayer, LORD! Listen closely to my cry for help! Please don’t ignore my tears! I’m just a foreigner— an immigrant staying with you, just like all my ancestors were.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.

Psalm 39:12 Cross References

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

Hebrews 11:13

All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,

Psalm 119:19

I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

1 Peter 1:17

If you invoke as Father the one who judges impartially according to each person’s work, live in fear during the time of your exile.

Psalm 56:8

You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record?

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

2 Kings 20:5

“Turn back and say to Hezekiah prince of my people: Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; indeed, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.

Psalm 116:3

The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will look on my distress, and the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.”

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always confident, even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—

Psalm 102:1

Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs wherever I make my home.

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham resided as an alien many days in the land of the Philistines.

Job 13:28

One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pass away under your wrath; our years come to an end like a sigh.