For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!
For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
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