¹³ All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised;^(A) they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,^(B) admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.^{(C) 14} People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.^{(D) 16} Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.^(E) Therefore God is not ashamed^(F) to be called their God,^(G) for he has prepared a city^(H) for them.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.^(A) My years have been few and difficult,^(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.^(C)”

Psalm 89^[a]

A maskil^[b] of Ethan the Ezrahite.

Psalm 10^[a]