Psalm 39:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham resided as an alien many days in the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will look on my distress, and the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.”

2 Kings 20:5

“Turn back and say to Hezekiah prince of my people: Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; indeed, 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 aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 13:28

One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Psalm 102:1

Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you.

Psalm 116:3

The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Psalm 119:19

I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs wherever I make my home.

Psalm 56:8

You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record?

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pass away under your wrath; our years come to an end like a sigh.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always confident, even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—

Hebrews 11:13

All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up 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 reverent submission.

1 Peter 1:17

If you invoke as Father the one who judges impartially according to each person’s work, live in fear during the time of your exile.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.