Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers: Are exposed to persecution

How wretched I am, that I'm an alien in Meshekh, that I must live among the tents of Keidar!

I have had to live far too long with those who hate peace.

I am all for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

“I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world — just as I myself do not belong to the world.