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Psalms 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.

KJV

Tu autem, Domine, ne longe facias miserationes tuas a me ; misericordia tua et veritas tua semper susceperunt me.

Vulgate

σὺ δέ, Κύριε, μὴ μακρύνῃς τοὺς οἰκτιρμούς σου ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ· τὸ ἔλεός σου καὶ ἡ ἀλήθειά σου διὰ παντὸς ἀντελάβοντό μου.

LXX

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.

ASV

בְּֽ/תוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת עַל עָוֺ֨ן יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ וַ/תֶּ֣מֶס כָּ/עָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑/וֹ אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל אָדָ֣ם סֶֽלָה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

א
'
noun · 12×
אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
אַךְ
'k
adverb · 158×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
הִמְסִ֖יו
hmsyv
verb · 4×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
י
y
noun · 28×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
noun · 230×
נִי
ny
verb · 43×
סֶֽלָה
slh
particle · 71×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
תַחְמֹ֖ד
tchmd
verb · 28×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1502The man of the Old Testament lives his sickness in the presence of God. It is before God that he laments his illness, and it is of God, Master of life and death, that he implores healing.98 Illness becomes a way to conversion; God's forgiveness initiates the healing.99 It is the experience of Israel that illness is mysteriously linked to sin and evil, and that faithfulness to G…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 29:15 — For 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.
  • 1Chr 29:15 — For 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.
  • 1Pet 1:17 — And 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:
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 2Cor 5:6 — Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
  • 2Cor 5:6 — Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
  • 2Kgs 20:5 — Turn 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 tho
  • 2Kgs 20:5 — Turn 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 tho
  • 2Sam 16:12 — It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
  • Exod 2:22 — And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
  • Exod 18:3 — And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
  • Gen 23:4 — I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
  • Gen 26:3 — Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father
  • Gen 28:4 — And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
  • Gen 47:9 — And 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
  • Gen 47:9 — And 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
  • Heb 5:7 — Who 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;
  • Heb 11:13 — These 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 eart
  • Heb 11:13 — These 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 eart
  • Job 16:20 — My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
  • Lev 25:23 — The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
  • Lev 25:23 — The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
  • Ps 35:22 — This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
  • Ps 56:8 — Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
  • Ps 56:8 — Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
  • Ps 102:1 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
  • Ps 102:1 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
  • Ps 116:3 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 119:19 — I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
  • Ps 119:19 — I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
  • Ps 119:54 — Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.