Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors.
International Standard Version
For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
For we are
Bible in Basic English
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
Darby Translation
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life.
Julia Smith Translation
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
King James 2000
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Modern King James verseion
For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.
NET Bible
For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
New Heart English Bible
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
The Emphasized Bible
for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.
Webster
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 no abiding.
World English Bible
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Youngs Literal Translation
for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
Themes
Joy » Instances of » Of david, over the offerings of the princes and people for the house of God
Life » Lessons of » Pilgrimage, a
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a shadow
Man » Days of, compared to a shadow
Pilgrims and strangers » Saints confess themselves
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified
Praise » Of david » At the close of his reign
public Prayer » Exemplified » David
Topics
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American
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 29:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
David Prays In The Assembly
14 But all is of thee, and of that we received of thine hand we have given thee. 15 For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding. 16 O LORD our God, all this heap that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name, cometh of thine hand, and is all thine.
Names
Cross References
Job 14:2
He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and with thine ears consider my calling; hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalm 102:11
My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."
Leviticus 25:23
Wherefore the land shall not be sold forever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me:
Psalm 90:9
For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger upon earth; O hide not thy commandments from me.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?
Isaiah 40:6-8
The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field.
Hebrews 11:13-16
And they all died in faith, and received not the promises: but saw them afar off, and believed them, and saluted them: and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
James 4:14
and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,