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.
For i am
As all
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Bible References
Hold
Psalm 56:8
You have kept account of my wandering. Put my tears in your skin bottle. Are they not in your book?
Psalm 116:3
The ropes of death became tangled around me. The fear of the grave took hold of me. I experienced pain and agony.
2 Samuel 16:12
Perhaps Jehovah will acknowledge my misery and give me some blessings to take away this curse.
Job 16:20
My friends are my scoffers. My eye weeps to God.
Hebrews 5:7
In the days of his life on earth, when he [Christ] offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save him out of death, and was heard because of his godly reverence. (Galatians 1:1) (Psalm 69:13)
For i am
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me.
Leviticus 25:23
No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.
1 Chronicles 29:15
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.
2 Corinthians 5:6
We are always confident for we 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 greeted them from afar. They 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 you spend here in reverence.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
As all
Genesis 47:9
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.
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Genesis 21:34
Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for many days.