1 Chronicles 29:15

Modern English Version

For we are strangers and sojourners before You, just as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and a foreigner among you. Give me property for a burying place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 28:4

May He give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were foreigners could not sustain them because of their livestock.

Genesis 47:9

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

1 Chronicles 29:14

“But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so freely as this? For everything comes from You, even from Your own hand we have given to You.

1 Chronicles 29:16

O  Lord our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name has come from Your hand, and all belongs to You.

Job 14:10

But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up his breath, and where is he?

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Job 8:9

for we were born but yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on the earth; hide not Your commandments from me.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O  Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with You, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 39:13

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may become cheerful again, before I go away and am no more.

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pass away under Your wrath; we finish our years like a whisper.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for a person in life during the number of the days of his vain life, which pass like a shadow? For who can declare to a person what will occur after him under the sun?

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be permanently sold, for the land is Mine, for you are foreigners and sojourners with Me.

James 4:14

whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.