⁵⁴ Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

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.

¹ Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

¹ <Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.> My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.

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.