Psalm 39:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

2 Kings 20:5

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

Job 13:28

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Job 16:20

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

Psalm 102:1

A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord. Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.

Psalm 116:3

The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 119:19

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

Psalm 56:8

You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

Psalm 90:9

For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

Leviticus 25:23

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,

Hebrews 11:13

All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

1 Peter 1:17

And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

1 Peter 2:11

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;