He lived as an outsider in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Psalm 39:12 - Tree of Life Version With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, And a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not Your peace at my tears! For I am Your passing guest, a temporary resident, as all my fathers were. American Standard Version (1901) Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were. Common English Bible Hear my prayer, LORD! Listen closely to my cry for help! Please don’t ignore my tears! I’m just a foreigner— an immigrant staying with you, just like all my ancestors were. Catholic Public Domain Version O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me. |
He lived as an outsider in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”
Perhaps Adonai will look on my affliction and return good to me for his cursing this day.”
“Return, and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, thus says Adonai, the God of your father David: ‘I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Behold, I am going to heal you. On the third day you will go up to the House of Adonai.
For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.
A prayer of the afflicted one, when he is faint and pours out his lament before Adonai:
The ropes of death entangled me, and the torments of Sheol found me. I found trouble and sorrow.
In spite of such sin, will they escape? In fierce anger, O God, cast down such people!
For all our days have passed away under Your wrath. We spent our years like a sigh.
“Moreover, the land is not to be sold permanently, because the land is Mine. For you are sojourners with Me.
Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
These all died in faith without receiving the things promised—but they saw them and welcomed them from afar, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
In the days of His life on earth, Yeshua offered up both prayers and pleas, with loud crying and tears, to the One able to save Him from death; and He was heard because of His reverence.
If you call on Him as Father—the One who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds—then live out the time of sojourning in reverent fear.
Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.