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.

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Psalm 56:8
You number my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?
Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pangs of sheol got hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.
Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

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Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
Leviticus 25:23
The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
1 Peter 1:17
And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your exile here in fear:
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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Genesis 21:34
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.