Psalm 39:12

Modern English Version

Hear my prayer, O  Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with You, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps today the Lord will look upon my guilt and return kindness instead of his cursing.”

2 Kings 20:5

“Turn back and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people: Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers and sojourners before You, just as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 13:28

“Man, as a rotten thing, decays, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears unto God.

Psalm 102:1

Hear my prayer, O  Lord, and let my cry come to You.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me, and the pangs of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on the earth; hide not Your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.

Psalm 56:8

You keep count of my wanderings; put my tears in Your bottle; are they not in Your book?

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pass away under Your wrath; we finish our years like a whisper.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be permanently sold, for the land is Mine, for you are foreigners and sojourners with Me.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death. He was heard because of His godly fear.

1 Peter 1:17

And if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your sojourning.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.