Isaiah 38:12
New Living Translation
12 My life has been blown away
like a shepherd’s tent in a storm.
It has been cut short,
as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom.
Suddenly, my life was over.
Hebrews 1:12
New Living Translation
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.”[a]
Footnotes
2 Corinthians 5:1
New Living Translation
New Bodies
5 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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Psalm 73:14
New Living Translation
14 I get nothing but trouble all day long;
every morning brings me pain.
2 Peter 1:13-14
New Living Translation
13 And it is only right that I should keep on reminding you as long as I live.[a] 14 For our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me that I must soon leave this earthly life,[b]
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James 4:14
New Living Translation
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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2 Corinthians 5:4
New Living Translation
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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Isaiah 13:20
New Living Translation
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.
Isaiah 1:8
New Living Translation
8 Beautiful Jerusalem[a] 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.
Footnotes
- 1:8 Hebrew The daughter of Zion.
Psalm 119:23
New Living Translation
23 Even princes sit and speak against me,
but I will meditate on your decrees.
Psalm 102:23-24
New Living Translation
23 He broke my strength in midlife,
cutting short my days.
24 But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever,
don’t take my life while I am so young!
Psalm 102:11
New Living Translation
11 My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows.
I am withering away like grass.
Psalm 89:45-47
New Living Translation
45 You have made him old before his time
and publicly disgraced him. Interlude
46 O Lord, how long will this go on?
Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your anger burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my life is,
how empty and futile this human existence!
Psalm 31:22
New Living Translation
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.
Job 17:1
New Living Translation
Job Continues to Defend His Innocence
17 “My spirit is crushed,
and my life is nearly snuffed out.
The grave is ready to receive me.
Job 14:2
New Living Translation
2 We blossom like a flower and then wither.
Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
Job 9:25-26
New Living Translation
25 “My life passes more swiftly than a runner.
It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
26 It disappears like a swift papyrus boat,
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Job 7:3-7
New Living Translation
3 I, too, have been assigned months of futility,
long and weary nights of misery.
4 Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’
But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs.
My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.
Job Cries Out to God
6 “My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle.
They end without hope.
7 O God, remember that my life is but a breath,
and I will never again feel happiness.
Job 6:9
New Living Translation
9 I wish he would crush me.
I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
Job 4:20
New Living Translation
20 They are alive in the morning but dead by evening,
gone forever without a trace.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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