Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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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. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?
Psalm 116:3
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me good for the cursing of me today."
Job 16:20
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
Hebrews 5:7
In the days of his flesh, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

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Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me.
Leviticus 25:23
"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore, we are always confident and know 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 and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

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Genesis 21:34
Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.