1 Chronicles 29:15

Tree of Life Version

For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

He lived as an outsider in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Genesis 23:4

“I am an outsider and a sojourner among you. Give me a gravesite among you so that I may bury my dead from before my presence.”

Genesis 28:4

And may he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you that you may take possession of the land of your sojourn, which God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too numerous for them to dwell together, and the land where they were residing was unable to support them because of their livestock.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”

1 Chronicles 29:14

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

1 Chronicles 29:16

Adonai Eloheinu, all this abundance that we have laid aside to build You a House for Your holy Name is from Your hand; it all belongs to You.

Job 14:10

But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—and where is he?

Job 14:2

Like a flower he comes up and withers; like a shadow he flees and does not stay.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and tossed me aside.

Psalm 119:19

I am a temporary dweller on earth— do not hide Your mitzvot from me.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:12

With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah

Psalm 39:13

Hear my prayer, Adonai, and listen to my cry— do not keep silent at my tears. For with You I am an outsider, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 90:9

For all our days have passed away under Your wrath. We spent our years like a sigh.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for one during his life—during the few days of his fleeting life—that pass like a shadow? For who can tell a person what happens after him under the sun?

Leviticus 25:23

“Moreover, the land is not to be sold ­permanently, because the land is Mine. For you are sojourners with Me.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

1 Peter 2:11

Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.