1 Chronicles 29:15

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.

For we

1 Peter 2:11

Our days

General references

Genesis 21:34

Haggai 2:8

Luke 17:10

Bible References

For we

"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."

Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.

Since I am a stranger on the earth, do not hide your commands from me.

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

Our days

He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.

All our days pass away in your wrath; our years fade away and end like a sigh.

My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.

The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.

A voice says, "Cry out!" So I asked, "What am I to cry out?" "All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field.

You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

General references

After this, Abraham resided as a foreigner in Philistine territory for a long period of time.

"The silver belongs to me, as does the gold," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

That's the way it is with you. When you have done everything you were ordered to do, say, "We are worthless servants. We have done only what we ought to have done.'"