Psalm 39:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Hold

Hebrews 5:7

For i am

1 Peter 2:11

As all

Genesis 47:9

General references

Genesis 21:34

Bible References

Hold

You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

For i am

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,

All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

As all

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

General references

And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.