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 answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
Our days
Job 14:2
He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.
Psalm 90:9
Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a lengthened shadow and I wither away like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who knows what is good for man in this life? Are all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after his existence under the sun?
Isaiah 40:6
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
James 4:14
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
General references
Genesis 21:34
Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Haggai 2:8
The silver and gold of the world is mine, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Luke 17:10
The same applies to you. When you have done all you have been told to do, you say, we are unworthy servants. We have done what we ought to have done.