Psalm 39:12

World Messianic Bible British Edition

“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to 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 to me, and that the LORD will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

2 Kings 20:5

“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘The LORD, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to the LORD’s house.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Job 13:28

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 16:20

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

Psalm 102:1

Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry come to you.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

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

Psalm 56:8

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Psalm 90:9

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Leviticus 25:23

“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident and know that while 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 embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Hebrews 5:7

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

1 Peter 1:17

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,