Psalm 39:12
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12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
and give ear to my cry;
do not hold your peace at my tears.
For I am your passing guest,
an alien, like all my forebears.(A)
1 Peter 2:11
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Live as Servants of God
11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.[a](A)
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- 2.11 Or one’s life
Hebrews 11:13
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13 All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,(A)
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Psalm 119:19
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19 I live as an alien in the land;
do not hide your commandments from me.(A)
Leviticus 25:23
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23 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.(A)
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Genesis 47:9
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9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”
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1 Peter 1:17
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17 If you invoke as Father the one who judges impartially according to each person’s work, live in fear during the time of your exile.(A)
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Psalm 56:8
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8 You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your record?(A)
1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.(A)
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2 Kings 20:5
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5 “Turn back and say to Hezekiah prince of my people: Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; indeed, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.(A)
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Psalm 116:3
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3 The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.(A)
Job 16:20
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20 My friends scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
2 Samuel 16:12
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12 It may be that the Lord will look on my distress,[a] and the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.”(A)
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- 16.12 Gk Vg: Heb iniquity
Hebrews 5:7
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7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.(A)
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- 5.7 Gk he
2 Corinthians 5:6
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6 So we are always confident, even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—
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Psalm 102:1
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Psalm 102
Prayer to the Eternal King for Help
A prayer of one afflicted, when faint and pleading before the Lord.
1 Hear my prayer, O Lord;
let my cry come to you.(A)
Psalm 119:54
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54 Your statutes have been my songs
wherever I make my home.
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