Psalms 90:9

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.

Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.

So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.

The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.

It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

“Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.