A Short Time

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

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

• Ear
• Vanity
• David

LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. read more Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. show less

• Temporary

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

• Irony
• Sarcasm

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

• Self-denial

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

• Seven

And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.