Psalm 39:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 47:9

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

2 Samuel 16:12

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

2 Kings 20:5

“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince 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 before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Job 13:28

Man 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 thee!

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 am a sojourner on earth; hide not thy commandments from me!

Psalm 119:54

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

Psalm 56:8

Thou hast kept count of my tossings; put thou my tears in thy bottle! Are they not in thy book?

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pass away under thy 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; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles 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, and he was heard for his godly fear.

1 Peter 1:17

And if you invoke as Father him who judges each one impartially according to his deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile.

1 Peter 2:11

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