Psalm 39:12

New English Translation

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse.”

2 Kings 20:5

“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go up to the Lord’s temple.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

Job 13:28

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

Job 16:20

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

Psalm 102:1

O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

Psalm 116:3

The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 119:19

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Psalm 56:8

You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?

Psalm 90:9

Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

Leviticus 25:23

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord –

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

Hebrews 5:7

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests 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 devotion.

1 Peter 1:17

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,