New Revised Standard Version
for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

Contemporary English Version
When people talk this way, it is clear they are looking for a place to call their own.

New American Bible
for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country.

For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country.

they seek.

Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Hebrews 13:14 For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

Romans 8:23-25 And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:1-7 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. . . .

Philippians 1:23 But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.