Verse 15

for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And `to' my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I `am' with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 `And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land `is' Mine, for sojourners and settlers `are' ye with Me;
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 A sojourner I `am' on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh `is' grass, and all its goodliness `is' As a flower of the field: 7 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people `is' grass; 8 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, 14 for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; 15 and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, 16 but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings `are' an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
  • Ps 90:9 : 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.