Psalms 39:12

World English Bible (2000)

"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred 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 pilgrimage."
  • Heb 11:13 : 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.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 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.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
  • 2 Kgs 20:5 : 5 "Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.
  • Ps 56:8 : 8 You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?
  • Ps 102:1 : 1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 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:
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
  • Heb 5:7 : 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,
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
  • 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today."

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