Psalm 39:12
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.
Hebrews 11:13
All these died in faith [guided and sustained by it], without receiving the [tangible fulfillment of God’s] promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.
Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The
Leviticus 25:23
‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents with Me.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.
2 Kings 20:5
“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father (ancestor): “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I am healing you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
Psalm 56:8
You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not recorded in Your book?
2 Samuel 16:12
Perhaps the Lord will look on the wrong done to me [by Shimei, if he is acting on his own]; and [in that case perhaps] the Lord will this day return good to me in place of his cursing.”
Job 16:20
“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.
Psalm 102:1
And let my cry for help come to You!
Psalm 116:3
The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.
Psalm 119:54
Your statutes are my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.
2 Corinthians 5:6
So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
Hebrews 5:7
In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].
1 Peter 1:17
If you address as Father, the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in [reverent] fear [of Him] and with profound respect for Him throughout the time of your stay on earth.
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You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not recorded in Your book?
The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.
“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.
For i am
I am a stranger on the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.