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Hebrews 1:12
You will fold them up like a cloak and discard them like old clothing. But you are always the same; you will live forever.”
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Psalms 73:14
I get nothing but trouble all day long; every morning brings me pain.
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2 Corinthians 5 1
For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down( that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
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Psalms 119:23
Even princes sit and speak against me, but I will meditate on your decrees.
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Job 6:9
I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
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Job 14:2
We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
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2 Peter 1 13-2 Peter 1 14
And it is only right that I should keep on reminding you as long as I live.For our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me that I must soon leave this earthly life,
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2 Corinthians 5 4
While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life.
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Psalms 102:11
My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.
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Psalms 31:22
In panic I cried out,“ I am cut off from the Lord!” But you heard my cry for mercy and answered my call for help.
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Isaiah 13:20
Babylon will never be inhabited again. It will remain empty for generation after generation. Nomads will refuse to camp there, and shepherds will not bed down their sheep.
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James 4:14
How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog— it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.
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Job 7:3-7
I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.Lying in bed, I think,‘ When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.“ My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope.O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness.
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Psalms 102:23-24
He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.But I cried to him,“ O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young!
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Isaiah 1:8
Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege.
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Job 4:20
They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace.
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Job 17:1
“ My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me.
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Psalms 89:45-47
You have made him old before his time and publicly disgraced him. InterludeO Lord, how long will this go on? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!
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Job 9:25-26
“ My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.