15  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a ^bshadow, and there is none abiding.

  11  My days are like a ^ashadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  26  And it came to pass that I, Jacob, began to be old; and the record of this people being kept on the other plates of Nephi, wherefore, I conclude this record, declaring that I have written according to the best of my knowledge, by saying that the time passed away with us, and also our lives passed away like as it were unto us a ^cdream, we being a lonesome and a solemn people, wanderers, cast out from Jerusalem, born in tribulation, in a wilderness, and hated of our brethren, which caused wars and contentions; wherefore, we did mourn out our days.