¹³ These all died in faith, ^(A)not having received the things promised, but ^(B)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and ^(C)having acknowledged that they were ^(D)strangers and exiles on the earth. ¹⁴ For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, ^(E)they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed ^(F)to be called their God, for ^(G)he has prepared for them a city.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my ^(A)sojourning are 130 years. ^(B)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and ^(C)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their ^(D)sojourning.”

I Will Sing of the Steadfast Love of the Lord

A Maskil^[a] of ^(A)Ethan the Ezrahite.

Why Do You Hide Yourself?