Psalm 39:12

The English Standar Version

"Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, 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 130 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 on the wrong done to me,[1] and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing today."

2 Kings 20:5

"Turn back, and say to 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. 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 you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[5]

Job 13:28

Man[3] 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 am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.

Psalm 56:8

You have kept count of my tossings;[3] put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years 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 the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus[1] offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

1 Peter 1:17

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.