Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.
New American Standard Bible
Do not be silent
For I am
A
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.
Holman Bible
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.
International Standard Version
Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.
A Conservative Version
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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.
Amplified
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.
Bible in Basic English
Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
Darby Translation
Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
King James 2000
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.
Modern King James verseion
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a pilgrim, as all my fathers were.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and with thine ears consider my calling; hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
NET Bible
Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.
New Heart English Bible
"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
The Emphasized Bible
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent, - For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, like all my fathers.
Webster
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to 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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Afflictions, Prayer During » For mitigation of troubles
Ear » Figurative » Anthropomorphic uses of
Life » Lessons of » Pilgrimage, a
Pilgrims and strangers » Saints confess themselves
Pilgrims and strangers » All saints are
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » David
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief
Topics
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 39:12
Prayers for Psalm 39:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fleeting Nature Of Life
11 With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence. 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers. 13 Look away from me, and I shall be cheerful, before I shall go and I not be.
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Names
Cross References
Hebrews 11:13
According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.
Leviticus 25:23
And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth, thou wilt not hide thy commands from me.
2 Kings 20:5
Turn back and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer, I saw thy tears: behold me healing thee: in the third day thou shalt go up to the house of Jehovah.
Psalm 56:8
Thou didst recount my wanderings: set thou my tears in thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
2 Samuel 16:12
Perhaps Jehovah will look upon my wrong, and Jehovah turn back to me good for his cursing this day.
Job 16:20
My friends mocking me: to God mine eye wept.
Psalm 102:1
Prayer for the poor when he shall languish, and before Jehovah shall pour out his complaint O Jehovah, hear my prayer, and my cry shall come to thee.
Psalm 116:3
The pains of death surrounded me, and the distresses of hades found me: shall find straits and affliction.
Psalm 119:54
Thy laws were musics to me in the house of my sojourning.
2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;
1 Peter 1:17
And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning: