Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

"I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?

"And there will no longer be in it a young boy who lives only a few days, or an old person who does not live out his days; for one who dies at a hundred years will be thought a mere youth, and one who falls short of a hundred years will be considered accursed.

I abandoned you {for a short} moment, but I will gather you with great compassion.

Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short {to save}, and his ear is not [too] dull {to hear}.

For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.

For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.

Why was no one there when I came?
Why was there no one to answer when I called?
Is My hand too short to redeem?
Or do I have no power to deliver?
Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;
I turn the rivers into a wilderness;
their fish rot because of lack of water
and die of thirst.

Though My Lord, should give you bread in short measure and water in scant allowance Yet will thy Teacher not hide himself any more, But thine eyes shall ever be looking on thy Teacher.

For a short time only, did thy holy people hold possession, - Our adversaries, trod down thy sanctuary!

Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];
For why should he be esteemed?

head wraps (turbans), [short, jingling] ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets (charms),

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the rich valley,
Will be like the early fig before the summer,
Which one sees,
And as soon as it is in his hand
He [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].

It shall never be inhabited forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; nor shall the shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness.

I thought I would have lived unto the morrow, but he bruised my bones like a lion, and made an end of me in one day.