we are strangers before thee] Psalms 39:12. Hebrews 11:13. 1 Pet. 2. 11. we are strangers] Strangers have all upon courtesie. our dayes on the earth are as a shadow] Psalms 90:9. as a shadow] Seeing we cannot long injoy what here we have, how can we better bestow it then on thee, O God. abiding] Heb. expectation. Of eternity.