New King James Version
Psalms 39:12
12“Hear my prayer, O Lord, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 39:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)“Hear my prayer, Lord, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cries for help! Don’t ignore my tears. For I am your guest— a traveler passing through, as my ancestors were before me.
Context of Psalms 39:12
10Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand. 11When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. Selah “Hear my prayer, O Lord, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more.”
Read all of Psalms 39Psalms 39:12 word by word
שִֽׁמְעָ֥ה־תְפִלָּתִ֨י׀ יְהוָ֡ה וְשַׁוְעָתִ֨י׀ הַאֲזִינָה֮ אֶֽל־דִּמְעָתִ֗י אַֽל־תֶּ֫חֱרַ֥שׁ כִּ֤י גֵ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י עִמָּ֑ךְ תּ֝וֹשָׁ֗ב כְּכָל־אֲבוֹתָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
- my prayerתְּפִלָּהtephillâh · prayerH8605
- O Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- and give earאָזַן'âzan · to listenH238
- unto my cryשַׁוְעָהshav‛âh · cryH7775
- hold not thy peaceחָרֵשׁchârash · be quietH2790
- at my tearsדִּמְעָהdim‛âh · tearsH1832
- a strangerגֵּרgêr gêyr · sojournerH1616
- a sojournerתּוֹשָׁבtôshâb tôshâb · sojournerH8453
- as all my fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
Cross-references for Psalms 39:12
- Psalms 56:8You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?
- Psalms 116:3The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.
- 2 Samuel 16:12It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing this day.”
- 2 Kings 20:5“Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
- Job 16:20My friends scorn me; My eyes pour out tears to God.
- Hebrews 5:7who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,
- Psalms 119:19I am a stranger in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me.
- Leviticus 25:23‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As were all our fathers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope.
- 2 Corinthians 5:6So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
- Hebrews 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- 1 Peter 1:17And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;
- 1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
- Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and 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.”
Commentaries on Psalms 39:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Hear my prayer - Therefore, O Lord, show that mercy upon me which I so much need, and without which I must perish everlastingly. I am a stranger with thee - I have not made this earth my home; I have not trusted in any arm but thine. Though I have sinned, I have never denied thee, and never cast thy words behind my back. I knew that here I had no continuing city. Like my fathers, I looked for a city that has permanent foundations, in a better state of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry - That is, in view of my affliction and my sins; in view, also, of the perplexing questions which have agitated my bosom; the troublous thoughts which passed through my soul, which I did not dare to express before man Psalm 39:1-2, but which I have now expressed before thee. Hold not thy peace - Be not silent. Do not refuse to answer me; to speak peace to me. At my tears - Or rather, at my weeping; as if…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 There is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature; but it is to be found in the Lord, and in communion with him; to him we should be driven by our disappointments. If the world be nothing but vanity, may God deliver us from having or seeking our portion in it. When creature-confidences fail, it is our comfort that we have a God to go to, a God to trust in. We may see a good God doing all, and ordering all events concerning us; and a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12A foreigner could not own land (see Leviticus 25:23). The patriarchs had lived as guests in Canaan (Psalm 105:23).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1312-13. Consonant with the tenor of the Psalm, he prays for God's compassionate regard to him as a stranger here; and that, as such was the condition of his fathers, so, like them, he may be cheered instead of being bound under wrath and chastened in displeasure.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 39
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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