Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
General references
Bible References
For we
Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages.”
Psalm 39:12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.
Psalm 119:19 I am a stranger on earth;
do not hide Your commands from me.
do not hide Your commands from me.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.
Our days
Job 14:2 He blossoms like a flower, then withers;
he flees like a shadow and does not last.
he flees like a shadow and does not last.
Psalm 90:9 For all our days ebb away under Your wrath;
we end our years like a sigh.
we end our years like a sigh.
Psalm 102:11 My days are like a lengthening shadow,
and I wither away like grass.
and I wither away like grass.
Psalm 144:4 Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.
his days are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell man what will happen after him under the sun?
Isaiah 40:6 A voice was saying, “Cry out!”
Another said, “What should I cry out?”
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
Another
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
James 4:14
You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
General references
Genesis 21:34
And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Haggai 2:8
“The silver and gold belong to Me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
Luke 17:10 In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”