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Psalms 39:12
Psalms 39:12 is verse 12 of Psalms chapter 39, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
King James Version
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, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
World English Bible
“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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Psalms 39:10–13 · Berean Standard Bible
10 Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
2 Kings 20:5“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
Hebrews 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
Psalms 119:54Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
1 Peter 1:17Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”