TSK · Psalms 39:12

So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreign residents, temporary settlers, with me.

“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people:‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David has said:“I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go up to the LORD’s temple.

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?

The prayer of an oppressed man, as he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. O LORD, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

I am a resident foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord–

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,