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Mazmur 39:12

(39-13) Dengarkanlah doaku, ya TUHAN, dan berilah telinga kepada teriakku minta tolong, janganlah berdiam diri melihat air mataku! Sebab aku menumpang pada-Mu, aku pendatang seperti semua nenek moyangku.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Desire;   Ear;   Tears;   Thompson Chain Reference - Life;   Pilgrimage;   Tears;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affliction, Prayer under;   Pilgrims and Strangers;   Titles and Names of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jeduthun;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Foreigner;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Citizenship;   Foreigner;   Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Proselytes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeduthun;   Moth;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Stranger, Alien, Foreigner;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Stranger;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dumb;   Foreigner;   Proselyte;   Psalms, Book of;   Tears;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(39-13) Dengarkanlah doaku, ya TUHAN, dan berilah telinga kepada teriakku minta tolong, janganlah berdiam diri melihat air mataku! Sebab aku menumpang pada-Mu, aku pendatang seperti semua nenek moyangku.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau Engkau mengajari seorang dengan hardik oleh karena kesalahannya, maka Engkau membinasakan segala keelokannya seperti dimakan gegat; bahwasanya tiap-tiap manusia sia-sia jua adanya. -- Selah.

Contextual Overview

7 And nowe Lord what wayte I after? truely my hope is euen in thee. 8 Delyuer me from all my offences: and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolishe. 9 I became dumbe, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doyng. 10 Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande. 11 Thou doest chasten man, rebukyng him for sinne: thou as a moth doest consume his excellencie, for in very deede euery man is but vanitie. Selah. 12 Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were. 13 Oh spare me a litle, that I may recouer my strength: before I go hence, and be no more [seene.]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hold: Psalms 56:8, Psalms 116:3, 2 Samuel 16:12, *marg. 2 Kings 20:5, Job 16:20, Hebrews 5:7

for I am: Psalms 119:19, Psalms 119:54, Leviticus 25:23, 1 Chronicles 29:15, 2 Corinthians 5:6, Hebrews 11:13, 1 Peter 1:17, 1 Peter 2:11

as all: Genesis 47:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:34 - General Genesis 23:4 - stranger Genesis 26:3 - Sojourn Genesis 28:4 - which Exodus 2:22 - for he said Exodus 18:3 - Gershom Psalms 6:6 - I water Psalms 35:22 - keep Isaiah 38:5 - I have seen Mark 9:24 - with

Cross-References

Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and sayde vnto his maisters wyfe: Beholde, my maister woteth not what he hath in the house with me, and hath committed all that he hath to my hande.
Genesis 39:10
And after this maner spake she to Ioseph day by day: but he hearkened not vnto her to sleepe neare her, or to be in her company.
Genesis 39:13
And when she sawe that he had lefte his garment in her hande, and was fled out:
1 Samuel 15:27
And as Samuel turned hym selfe to go away, he caught the lappe of his coate, and it rent.
Proverbs 1:15
My sonne, walke not thou with them, refrayne thy foote from their wayes.
Proverbs 5:8
Kepe thy way farre from her, & come not nigh the doores of her house.
Proverbs 6:5
Saue thy self as a Doe from the hand of the [hunter] and as a byrde from the hande of the fouler.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with her.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceaued. Euyll wordes, corrupt good maners.
2 Timothy 2:22
Lustes of youth auoyde, but folowe ryghteousnesse, fayth, loue, peace, with them that call on the Lorde out of a pure heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear my prayer, O Lord,.... Which was, that he would remove the affliction from him that lay so hard and heavy upon him;

and give ear unto my cry; which shows the distress he was in, and the vehemency with which he put up his petition to the Lord;

hold not thy peace at my tears; which were shed in great plenty, through the violence of the affliction, and in his fervent prayers to God; see Hebrews 5:7;

for I [am] a stranger with thee; not to God, to Christ, to the Spirit, to the saints, to himself, and the plague of his own heart, or to the devices of Satan; but in the world, and to the men of it; being unknown to them, and behaving as a stranger among them; all which was known to God, and may be the meaning of the phrase "with thee"; or reference may be had to the land of Canaan, in which David dwelt, and which was the Lord's, and in which the Israelites dwelt as strangers and sojourners with him, Leviticus 25:23; as it follows here;

[and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were]; meaning Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their posterity; see Genesis 23:4; as are all the people of God in this world: this is not their native place; they belong to another and better country; their citizenship is in heaven; their Father's house is there, and there is their inheritance, which they have a right unto, and a meetness for: they have no settlement here; nor is their rest and satisfaction in the things of this world: they reckon themselves, while here, as not at home, but in a foreign land; and this the psalmist mentions, to engage the Lord to regard his prayers, since he has so often expressed a concern for the strangers and sojourners in the land of Israel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear 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 Psalms 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 God heard the voice of his weeping. Weeping, if uncomplaining, is of the nature of prayer, for God regards the sorrows of the soul as he sees them. The weeping penitent, the weeping sufferer, is one on whom we may suppose God looks with compassion, even though the sorrows of the soul do not find “words” to give utterance to them. Compare the notes at Job 16:20. See also Romans 8:26,

For I am a stranger - The word used - גר gêr - means properly a sojourner; a foreigner; a man living out of his own country: Genesis 15:13; Exodus 2:22. It refers to a man who has no permanent home in the place or country where he now is; and it is used here as implying that, in the estimation of the psalmist himself, he had no permanent abode on earth. He was in a strange or foreign land. He was passing to a permanent home; and he prays that God would be merciful to him as to a man who has no home - no permanent abiding place - on earth. Compare the notes at Hebrews 11:13; notes at 1 Peter 2:11.

And a sojourner - This word has substantially the same signification. It denotes one living in another country, without the rights of a citizen.

As all my fathers were - All my ancestors. The allusion is doubtless derived from the fact that the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob thus lived as men who had no permanent home here - who had no possession of soil in the countries where they sojourned - and whose whole life, therefore, was an illustration of the fact that they were “on a journey” - a journey to another world. 1 Chronicles 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.” Compare the notes at Hebrews 11:13-15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 39:12. Hear 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 being.


 
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