Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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Genesis 3:9
Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:18
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 4:20
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Job 7:21
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
Psalms 90:3
You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
Romans 5:12
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.
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Genesis 8:21
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 10:19
Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
Isaiah 27:4
Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
Isaiah 54:8
In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
Isaiah 54:9
“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Ezekiel 16:60
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Hosea 11:8
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
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Deuteronomy 20:19
When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?
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Job 5:25
You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
Psalms 72:16
Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
Psalms 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Job 9:26
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Job 13:25
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Job 16:22
For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
Job 17:1
“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
Job 17:11
My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:14
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
Job 17:15
where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
Job 17:16
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Psalms 38:7
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 102:23
He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
Psalms 102:24
I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Isaiah 38:13
I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
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Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
Job 7:10
He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
Job 8:18
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
Job 20:7
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
Job 20:9
The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
Job 27:3
(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Psalms 37:1
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
Psalms 37:10
For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
Psalms 37:38
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
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Psalms 6:2
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Psalms 41:3
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
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Genesis 6:3
Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
Job 4:17
‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 7:16
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 7:17
What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
Psalms 8:5
For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.
Psalms 39:11
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 62:9
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.
Psalms 146:4
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
Matthew 16:18
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Psalms 82:6
I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
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Psalms 82:7
Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”
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1 Chronicles 29:15
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.
Psalms 39:7
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
Psalms 109:23
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Romans 13:11
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
Hebrews 13:14
For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
2 Peter 3:8
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.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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2 Samuel 12:20
Then David arose from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him and he ate.
Psalms 95:6
Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
Psalms 95:7
for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
Psalms 95:8
Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Proverbs 3:7
Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
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Psalms 145:8
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
Psalms 145:9
Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Jeremiah 10:24
Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.
Joel 2:13
Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Romans 9:15
For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Ephesians 1:7
In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Ezekiel 16:61
Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
Ezekiel 16:62
I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
Ezekiel 16:63
that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Nahum 1:4
He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel languish. The flower of Lebanon languishes.
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Ezekiel 24:16
“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
Ezekiel 24:25
“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart—their sons and their daughters—
Luke 8:42
for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
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Matthew 6:28
Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
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Matthew 6:29
yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
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Mark 2:21
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
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Isaiah 28:4
The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer, which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
Acts 17:28
‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
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Romans 7:19
For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
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Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
Hebrews 13:13
Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
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Exodus 34:6
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Exodus 34:7
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
Numbers 14:18
‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
1 Kings 19:12
After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.
Job 4:16
It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
Psalms 85:5
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
Psalms 86:15
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
Psalms 111:4
He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Micah 7:19
He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.
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