Psalm 39:12

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Lord, hear my prayer! Listen to the words I cry to you. Look at my tears. I am only a traveler passing through this life with you. Like all my ancestors, I will live here only a short time.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are like visitors and strangers in this world. So I beg you to keep your lives free from the evil things you want to do, those desires that fight against your true selves.

Hebrews 11:13

All these great people continued living with faith until they died. They did not get the things God promised his people. But they were happy just to see those promises coming far in the future. They accepted the fact that they were like visitors and strangers here on earth.

Psalm 119:19

I feel like a stranger visiting here on earth. I need to know your commands. Don’t keep them hidden from me.

Leviticus 25:23

“The land really belongs to me, so you cannot sell it permanently. You are only foreigners and travelers living on my land with me.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “I have had a short life with many troubles. I am only 130 years old. My father and his ancestors lived to be much older than I am.”

1 Peter 1:17

You pray to God and call him Father, but he will judge everyone the same way—by what they do. So while you are visiting here on earth, you should live with respect for God.

Psalm 56:8

You know I am very upset. You know how much I have cried. Surely you have kept an account of all my tears.

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only strangers traveling through this world like our ancestors. Our time on earth is like a passing shadow, and we cannot stop it.

2 Kings 20:5

“Go back and speak to Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I heard your prayer and I saw your tears, so I will heal you. On the third day you will go up to the Temple of the Lord.

Hebrews 5:7

While Jesus lived on earth he prayed to God, asking for help from the one who could save him from death. He prayed to God with loud cries and tears. And his prayers were answered because of his great respect for God.

Psalm 116:3

Death’s ropes were around me. The grave was closing in on me. I was worried and afraid.

Job 16:20

My friend speaks for me, while my eyes pour out tears to God.

2 Samuel 16:12

Maybe the Lord will see the wrong things that are happening to me and give me something good for every bad thing that Shimei says today.”

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we always have confidence. We know that while we live in this body, we are away from the Lord.

Psalm 102:1

Lord, hear my prayer. Listen to my cry for help.

Psalm 119:54

Your laws are the songs I sing wherever I am living.

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham lived as a stranger for a long time in the country of the Philistines.

Job 13:28

So I am becoming weaker and weaker, like a piece of wood rotting away, like a piece of cloth eaten by moths.

Psalm 90:9

Your anger can end our life. Our lives fade away like a whisper.