1 Chronicles 29:15 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁵ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope or expectation of remaining.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ To be sure, we are like all our ancestors, immigrants without permanent homes. Our days are like a shadow on the ground, and there’s no hope.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. Our days upon earth are as a shadow: and there is no stay.

1 Chronicles 29:15 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 23:4

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

Genesis 28:4

May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham!”

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land of their sojournings could not support them because of their cattle.

Genesis 47:9

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

1 Chronicles 29:14

“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from thee, and of thy own have we given thee.

1 Chronicles 29:16

O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building thee a house for thy holy name comes from thy hand and is all thy own.

Job 14:10

But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

Job 8:9

for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for 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 sojourner on earth; hide not thy 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; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers.

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!”

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pass away under thy wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

James 4:14

whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.