Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. New Living Translation We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace. English Standard Version 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 abiding. Berean Standard Bible For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. King James Bible 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. New King James Version For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As were all our fathers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope. New American Standard Bible For we are strangers before You, and temporary residents, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. NASB 1995 “For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. NASB 1977 “For we are sojourners before Thee, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. Legacy Standard Bible For we are sojourners before You, and foreign residents, like all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. Amplified Bible For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining]. Christian Standard Bible For we are aliens and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. Holman Christian Standard Bible For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. 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. Contemporary English Version We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears. English Revised 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation To you we are all like our ancestors- foreigners without permanent homes. Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. There's no hope [for them]. Good News Translation You know, O LORD, that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death. 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. Majority Standard Bible For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionfor we [are] sojourners and settlers before You, like all our fathers; our days on the land [are] as a shadow, and there is none abiding. Young's 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. Smith's Literal Translation For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFor 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. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. New American Bible For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future. New Revised Standard Version For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor we are like the proverb of vapor and of the potter, and we are sojourners before thee and a small people in the world, but thou didst rule over our fathers of old, and thou didst command them by which way they should walk and live. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because we are likened to the vapor of a pot, and we are small inhabitants before you in the world, and you ruled among our first fathers, and you ordered them in what way they should go and they should live. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For 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. Brenton Septuagint Translation for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context David's Prayer of Blessing…14But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You. 15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. 16O LORD our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You.… Cross References Hebrews 11:13 All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers. 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. Genesis 47:9 “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.” Job 14:1-2 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. / Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. Psalm 90:9-10 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh. / The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. James 4:14 You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, Psalm 119:19 I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me. 2 Peter 3:13 But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. John 14:2-3 In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? / And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. Ecclesiastes 1:2 “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!” Isaiah 40:6-8 A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. / The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass. / The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” Luke 12:20-21 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’ / This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.” Treasury of Scripture 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 none abiding. For we Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Psalm 119:19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. our days Job 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Psalm 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. Psalm 102:11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. abiding [heb] expectation Jump to Previous Abiding Aliens Country Earth Fathers Forefathers Foreigners Hope Life Shade Shadow Sight Sojourners Strange Strangers Tenants TimeJump to Next Abiding Aliens Country Earth Fathers Forefathers Foreigners Hope Life Shade Shadow Sight Sojourners Strange Strangers Tenants Time1 Chronicles 29 1. David, by his example and entreaty6. causes the princes and people to offer willingly 10. David's thanksgiving and prayer 20. The people, having blessed God, and sacrificed, make Solomon king. 26. David's reign and death For we are foreigners and sojourners The Hebrew words for "foreigners" (גֵּרִים, gerim) and "sojourners" (תוֹשָׁבִים, toshavim) convey a sense of temporary residence and lack of permanent status. In the ancient Near Eastern context, these terms were often used to describe people living in a land that was not their own, without the rights of citizenship. This reflects a deep theological truth about the human condition from a biblical perspective: believers are seen as temporary residents on earth, with their true citizenship in heaven (Philippians 3:20). This understanding calls Christians to live with a sense of detachment from worldly possessions and status, focusing instead on their eternal home. in Your presence as were all our fathers Our days on earth are like a shadow without hope Our days on the earth are as a (the) shadow.--Job 8:9; Psalm 144:4. And there is none abiding.--Rather, and there is no hope; no outlook, no assured future, no hope of permanence. What is the ground for this plaintive turn in the thought? Merely, it would seem, to emphasise what has just been said. We, as creatures of a day, can have no abiding and absolute possession. Our good things are lent to us for a season only. As our fathers passed away, so shall we. Verse 15. - Of the seven other clear occasions of occurrence of the word here translated abiding (מִקְוֶה), it bears three times the meaning of "a gathering together" as of waters (Genesis 1:10; Exodus 7:19; Leviticus 11:36). The other four times it is translated in the Authorized Version "hope," either in the abstract (Ezra 10:2), or in the personal object of it (Jeremiah 14:8; Jeremiah 17:13; Jeremiah 50:7). Probably the word "abiding," as drawn from this latter aspect of the word, expresses with sufficient accuracy the intended meaning here.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction we אֲנַ֧חְנוּ (’ă·naḥ·nū) Pronoun - first person common plural Strong's 587: We [are] foreigners גֵרִ֨ים (ḡê·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1616: A guest, a foreigner and sojourners וְתוֹשָׁבִ֖ים (wə·ṯō·wō·šā·ḇîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8453: Resident alien in Your presence, לְפָנֶ֛יךָ (lə·p̄ā·ne·ḵā) Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 6440: The face as were all כְּכָל־ (kə·ḵāl-) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every our forefathers. אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ (’ă·ḇō·ṯê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 1: Father Our days יָמֵ֛ינוּ (yā·mê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 3117: A day on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against earth הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land are like a shadow, כַּצֵּ֧ל ׀ (kaṣ·ṣêl) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6738: A shadow without וְאֵ֥ין (wə·’ên) Conjunctive waw | Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle hope. מִקְוֶֽה׃ (miq·weh) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4723: Something waited for, confidence, a collection, a pond, a caravan, drove Links 1 Chronicles 29:15 NIV1 Chronicles 29:15 NLT 1 Chronicles 29:15 ESV 1 Chronicles 29:15 NASB 1 Chronicles 29:15 KJV 1 Chronicles 29:15 BibleApps.com 1 Chronicles 29:15 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 29:15 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 29:15 French Bible 1 Chronicles 29:15 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before you (1 Chron. 1Ch iCh i Ch 1 chr 1chr) |
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