Psalm 39:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.”

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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 ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the being,

Hebrews 11:13

In belief all these died, not having received the promises, but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers on the earth.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth; Do not hide Your commands from me.

Leviticus 25:23

‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me.

Genesis 47:9

And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

1 Peter 1:17

And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear,

Psalm 56:8

You have counted my wanderings; You put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

2 Kings 20:5

“Return and say to Ḥizqiyahu the leader of My people, ‘Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Dawiḏ your father, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. See, I am going to heal you. On the third day go up to the House of יהוה.

Hebrews 5:7

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent fear,

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death were around me, And the pains of She’ol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

Job 16:20

My friends are they that scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to Eloah.

2 Samuel 16:12

“If so be, יהוה does look on my affliction, and יהוה shall return good to me for his cursing today.”

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Master –

Psalm 102:1

O יהוה, hear my prayer, And let my cry come to You.

Psalm 119:54

Your laws have been my songs In the place of my sojournings.

Genesis 21:34

And Aḇraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

Job 13:28

And he, like that which is rotten, wastes away, as a garment that is moth-eaten.

Psalm 90:9

For all our days have passed away in Your wrath, We spend our years like a whisper.