Psalm 39:12

New American Bible - revised edition

You chastise man with rebukes for sin; like a moth you consume his treasures. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses he is uttering this day.”

2 Kings 20:5

Go back and tell 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. Now I am healing you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future.

Job 13:28

Though I wear out like a leather bottle, like a garment the moth has consumed.

Job 16:20

My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes shed tears,

Psalm 102:1

The prayer of one afflicted and wasting away whose anguish is poured out before the Lord.

Psalm 116:3

I was caught by the cords of death; the snares of Sheol had seized me; I felt agony and dread.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes become my songs wherever I make my home.

Psalm 56:8

They are evil; watch them, God! Cast the nations down in your anger!

Psalm 90:9

Our life ebbs away under your wrath; our years end like a sigh.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold irrevocably; for the land is mine, and you are but resident aliens and under my authority.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

Hebrews 11:13

All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,

Hebrews 5:7

In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

1 Peter 1:17

Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.