For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. Cross References Hebrews 11:13 All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Genesis 23:4 "I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead." Genesis 28:4 And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham." Genesis 36:7 For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock. Leviticus 25:23 The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me. 1 Chronicles 29:14 But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You. 1 Chronicles 29:16 O LORD our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You. Job 14:2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. Job 14:10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers. Psalm 119:19 I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me. Treasury of Scripture For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. For we Genesis 47:9 Psalm 39:12 Psalm 119:19 our days Job 14:2 Psalm 90:9 Psalm 102:11 abiding [heb] expectation |