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12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear{H8685)} unto my cry; hold not thy peace{H8799)} at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)The psalmist, having meditated on the shortness and uncertainty of life, and the vanity and vexation of spirit that attend all the comforts of life, here, in these verses, turns his eyes and heart heaven-ward. When there is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature it is to be found in God, and in communion with him; and to him we should be driven by our disappointments in the world. David h…
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