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

My wandering, hast, thou, recorded, - Put thou my tears in thy bottle, Are they not in thy record?

The meshes of death encompassed me, and the distresses of hades, came upon me, Peril and sorrow, I found;

It may be, that Yahweh will behold with his eye, - and that Yahweh will return me good, for his cursing this day.

And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: -

Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up, both supplications and entreaties unto him that was able to save him out of death, with mighty outcries and tears, and been hearkened to by reason of his devoutness,

For i am

A sojourner, am, I, in the earth, Do not hide from me, thy commandments.

The land moreover shall not be sold beyond recovery, for, mine, is the land, - for, sojourners and settlers, ye are with me.

for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.

Having good courage, therefore, at all times, and knowing that - remaining at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, -

In faith, all these died - not bearing away the promises, but, from afar, beholding and saluting them, and confessing that, strangers and sojourners, were they upon the land.

And, if, as Father, ye are invoking him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to each man's work, with reverence, for the time of your sojourning, behave ye;

Beloved! I exhort you, as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly covetings, such as take the field against the soul;

As all

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.

General references

So Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.