¹² "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.

¹¹ Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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."

¹⁹ I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.

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 abiding.

²³ "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

⁸ You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?

⁵ Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.

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 strangers here in reverent fear:

⁷ He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

⁶ Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

⁵⁴ Your statutes have been my songs, In the house where I live.

³ The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

¹ > Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

²⁰ My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

¹² It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will requite me good for [his] cursing of me this day.