“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!
“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 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 sojourning.”
And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, 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 the Lord,
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord. Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you!
Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.
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