⁵⁴ Songs have been to me Thy statutes, In the house of my sojournings.

⁹ And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings `are' an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

¹ Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

¹ An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

¹⁴ for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

¹⁵ and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.