1 Chronicles 29:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. 8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves. 15 And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back. 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
  • Ps 90:9 : 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

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    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

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  • 1 Chr 29:13-14
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    13 So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name.

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  • Lam 5:2-3
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    3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Deut 29:15-16
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  • Ps 39:12
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    12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

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    9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

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  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

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    10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

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    15 O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

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    20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

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    14 For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
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    31 So that they may give you worship, walking in your ways, as long as they are living in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Ps 103:14-15
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    14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

    15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

  • Neh 9:36
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    36 Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

  • 2 Sam 14:14
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    19 When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

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    12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

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    47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

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    11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

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    51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

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    5 For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.

  • Josh 22:27-28
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    27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

    28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

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    9 Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

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    15 And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.

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    29 The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.

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    1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

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    9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

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    18 O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;

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    25 For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

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    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

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    16 For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

  • Job 14:2
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    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.