Psalm 39:12

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Hear my prayer, O LORD, And give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

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

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done unto me, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.

2 Kings 20:5

Turn again, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto 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 as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Job 13:28

Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

Psalm 102:1

Hear my prayer, O LORD, And let my cry come unto thee.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me I found trouble and sorrow

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the 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 tellest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?

Psalm 90:9

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.

Leviticus 25:23

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst 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 and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

1 Peter 1:17

And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;