Psalm 39:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

“Listen, Lord, to my prayer! My eyes are flooded with tears, as I pray to you. I am merely a stranger visiting in your home as my ancestors did.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.

Hebrews 11:13

Every one of those people died. But they still had faith, even though they had not received what they had been promised. They were glad just to see these things from far away, and they agreed that they were only strangers and foreigners on this earth.

Psalm 119:19

I live here as a stranger. Don't keep me from knowing your commands.

Leviticus 25:23

No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me—it isn't your land, and you only live there for a little while.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “I have lived only 130 years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

1 Peter 1:17

You say that God is your Father, but God doesn't have favorites! He judges all people by what they do. So you must honor God while you live as strangers here on earth.

Psalm 56:8

You have kept record of my days of wandering. You have stored my tears in your bottle and counted each of them.

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

2 Kings 20:5

the Lord sent him back to Hezekiah with this message: Hezekiah, you are the ruler of my people, and I am the Lord God, who was worshiped by your ancestor David. I heard you pray, and I saw you cry. I will heal you, so that three days from now you will be able to worship in my temple.

Hebrews 5:7

God had the power to save Jesus from death. And while Jesus was on earth, he begged God with loud crying and tears to save him. He truly worshiped God, and God listened to his prayers.

Psalm 116:3

Death attacked from all sides, and I was captured by its painful chains. But when I was really hurting,

Job 16:20

My friends have rejected me, but God is the one I beg

2 Samuel 16:12

But if the Lord hears these curses and sees the trouble I'm in, maybe he will have pity on me instead.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So always be cheerful! As long as we are in these bodies, we are away from the Lord.

Psalm 102:1

I pray to you, Lord! Please listen.

Psalm 119:54

No matter where I am, your teachings fill me with songs.

Genesis 21:34

Then Abraham lived a long time as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines.

Job 13:28

I am rotting away like cloth eaten by worms.

Psalm 90:9

Your anger is a burden each day we live, then life ends like a sigh.