¹⁹ I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

⁶ So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,

¹⁷ O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

¹² Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

⁹ And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

¹¹ My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

¹³ All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

¹⁴ For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.

¹⁵ And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.

¹⁶ But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.

⁴⁵ Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds.

⁴⁵ But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.

¹⁰ I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

¹⁷ That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,