Psalm 39:12 (WEB)
“Hear my prayer, LORD, 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.
Catechism · 1
“Illness becomes a way to conversion; God's forgiveness initiates the healing.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Pss 32:5; 38:5; 39:9, 12; 107:20; cf. Mk 2:5-12.
Fathers and councils · 11
Cyril of Jerusalem
“May God sometime shew you that night, the darkness which shines like the day, concerning which it is said, The darkness shall not be hidden from thee, and the night shall shine as the day.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxxix. 12. On Easter Eve the Church was full of lights which were kept burning all night, and the newly-baptized carried torches. Gregory of Nyssa,…
Read the whole comment“But the darkness is not hidden from the Saints.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxxix. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Hear my prayer, O Lord” (ver. 12).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Whence also is said in another Psalm, “A sojourner I am with Thee and a stranger, as all my fathers were.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 12.
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John Chrysostom
““As all my fathers were.” ( Ps. xxxix. 12.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““For I am a stranger,” saith he, “and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 12.
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Jerome
“He does not deem it possible to keep both his country and his Lord; even at that early day he is already fulfilling the prophet David’s words: “I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 12.
Read the whole comment“She would frequently exclaim: “I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were,” and again, I desire “to depart and to be with Christ.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 12.
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Tertullian
“Are not we, too, travellers in this world?” — editor's note: Or “age”—sæculo. Comp. Ps. xxxix. 12 (in LXX. xxxviii. 13, as in Vulg.) and Heb. xi. 13.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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Clement of Alexandria
““I am a stranger in the earth, and a sojourner with you,” it is said.” — editor's note: Gen. xxiii. 4; Ps. xxxix. 12.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 11.