Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 29:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
David Prays In The Assembly
14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer willingly after this manner? for all is of thee, and of that which is from thy hand have we given thee. 15 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. 16 Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house to thy holy name, is of thy hand, and is all thine own.
Names
Cross References
Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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 do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
Leviticus 25:23
And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Psalm 90:9
For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?
Isaiah 40:6-8
A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
Hebrews 11:13-16
All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
James 4:14
ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;