1 Chronicles 29:15

WEB

¹⁵For 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.

KJV

¹⁵For 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.

BSB

¹⁵For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

FBV

¹⁵In your eyes we are strangers and foreigners, just like our forefathers. Our time here on earth passes like a shadow, we have no hope of staying here long.

Extra References

Leviticus 25:23

²³“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

Psalms 144:4

⁴Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Psalms 102:11

¹¹My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Psalms 39:12

¹²“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Job 14:2

²He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

James 4:14

¹⁴Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

⁶The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. ⁷The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. ⁸The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

Psalms 119:19

¹⁹I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

Hebrews 11:13-16

¹³These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen^[+] them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ¹⁴For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. ¹⁵If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. ¹⁶But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Psalms 90:9

⁹For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.