KJV 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].
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Psalm 39:12
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].
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BSB 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.
WEB 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.
ASV American Standard Version
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
Surrounding context — Psalm 39
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.
12 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].
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
שִֽׁמְעָ֥ה־H8085 · sha.mato hear: hearתְפִלָּתִ֨י׀H8605 · te.phil.lahprayerיְהוָ֡הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDוְשַׁוְעָתִ֨י׀H7775 · shav.ahcryהַאֲזִינָה֮H238 · a.zanto listenאֶֽל־H413 · elto(wards)דִּמְעָתִ֗יH1832 · dim.ahtearsאַֽל־H408 · alnotתֶּ֫חֱרַ֥שׁH2790 · cha.rashto plow/plotכִּ֤יH3588 · kiforגֵ֣רH1616 · gersojournerאָנֹכִ֣יH595 · a.no.khiIעִמָּ֑ךְH5973 · imwithתּ֝וֹשָׁ֗בH8453 · to.shavsojournerכְּכָל־H3605 · kolallאֲבוֹתָֽי׃H1 · avfather
Cross-references
1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;Hebrews 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.Leviticus 25:23The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.2 Kings 20:5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain 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.Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.Psalm 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.Psalm 119:19I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.1 Chronicles 29:15For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.Hebrews 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;1 Peter 1:17And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:Psalm 56:8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?2 Samuel 16:12It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.Psalm 102:1A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.Job 16:20My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:Psalm 119:54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
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