Thematic Bible: Pilgrimage, a


Thematic Bible





I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as foreigners.


Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.

Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.

You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

I am a stranger in the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me.