1 Chronicles 29:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The lande shall not be solde to waste: for the lande is myne, & ye be but staungers and soiourners with me.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a straunger vpon earth: hyde not thy commaundementes from me.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The same voyce spake: Nowe crye. And the prophete aunswered, What shall I crye? That all fleshe is grasse, and that all the goodlinesse therof is as the floure of the fielde. 7 The grasse is withered, the floure falleth away, for the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them: of a trueth the people are grasse. 8 The grasse withereth, and the floure fadeth away: yet the worde of our God endureth for euer.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all dyed according to fayth, not hauing receaued the promises, but seing them a farre of, and beleuyng, and salutyng, and confessyng that they were straungers and pilgrimes on the earth. 14 For they that saye suche thynges, declare that they seke a countrey. 15 Also yf they had ben myndfull of that countrey from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned: 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is, a heauenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a citie.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 And yet can not ye tel what shall happen on the morowe. For what thyng is your lyfe? It is euen a vapour, that appeareth for a litle tyme, and then he vanisheth away.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearely beloued, I beseche you as straugers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lustes, whiche fight agaynst the soule:
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Iacob sayd vnto Pharao, The dayes of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirtie yeres: Fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life ben, and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of ye lyfe of my fathers, in the dayes of theyr pilgrimage.
  • Ps 90:9 : 9 For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as in speaking a worde.

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    9(For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe.)

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    16O Lorde our God, all this stuffe that we haue prepared to builde thee an house for thy holy name, commeth of thyne hand, and is all thyne.

  • 1 Chr 29:13-14
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    13And nowe our God we thanke thee, and prayse thy glorious name.

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  • Lam 5:2-3
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    2Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts.

    3We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes.

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    4Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.

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    15But both with hym that standeth here with vs this day before the Lorde our God, and also with hym that is not here with vs this day.

    16For ye knowe howe we haue dwelt in the lande of Egypt, and howe we came through the myddes of the nations which ye passed by:

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    12Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.

  • Ps 90:9-10
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    9For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as in speaking a worde.

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  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4O God make me to knowe mine ende, and the number of my dayes: that I may be certified howe long I haue to lyue.

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    10With vs are both olde and aged men, yea such as haue liued longer then thy father.

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    15O Lorde God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remayne yet escaped, as it is to see this day: Beholde also, in thy presence are we in our trespasses, & because of it may we not stand before thee.

  • Lam 5:20
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    20Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long?

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    14For here haue we no continuyng citie: but we seke one to come.

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    31That they may feare thee, & walke in thy wayes as long as they liue, in ye land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.

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    14For he knoweth wherof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust.

    15The dayes of man are as the dayes of an hearbe: he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde.

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    36Beholde, we are in bondage this day, and so is the lande that thou gauest vnto our fathers to eate the fruites and goodnesse thereof, beholde there are we bondmen.

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    6For our fathers haue trespassed, and done euill in the eyes of the Lorde our God, and haue forsaken him, and turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backes on it.

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    19When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle while in it:

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    15The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house toke me for a straunger, and I am become as an aliaunt in their sight.

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    15Doth not he count vs euen as straungers? for he hath solde vs, & hath quite deuoured also our money.

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    40That they may feare thee as long as they lyue in the lande which thou gauest vnto our fathers.

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    11See howe they rewarde vs, to come for to cast vs out of thy possession whiche thou hast geuen vs to inherite.

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    12Make vs to knowe so our dayes, that we number them: and we wyll frame a heart vnto wisdome.

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    20We knowledge (O Lorde) all our misdeedes, and the sinnes of our fathers: for we haue offended thee.

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    27But for a witnesse betweene vs and you, and our generations after vs, that we should serue the Lorde with our offerynges, sacrifices, & peace offerynges before him: & that your children shoulde not say to ours in tyme to come, Ye haue no part in the Lorde.

    28Therfore sayde we, that yf they should so say to vs or to our generations in tyme to come: that we wolde say again, Behold the fassion of the aulter of the Lord which our fathers made, neither for burnt offringes nor sacrifices, but for a witnesse betweene vs and you.

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    9Neither buylde we any house to dwel therein: we haue also among vs neither vineyardes, nor corne lande to sowe:

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    29The secretes of the Lorde our God are opened vnto vs, and to our children for euer, that we may do all the wordes of this lawe.

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    9For loe, our fathers were ouerthrowen with the sword, and our sonnes, our daughters, and our wyues were caried away captiue for the same cause.

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    7Since the time of our fathers haue we ben in great trespasse vnto this day, and because of our wickednesses haue we and our kinges and our priestes ben deliuered into the hande of the kinges of the nations, vnto the sworde, into captiuitie, into a spoyle, and into confusion of face, as it is to see this day.

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    16Yet art thou our father: for Abraham knoweth vs not, neither is Israel acquainted with vs: but thou Lorde art our father and redeemer, and thy name is euerlasting.

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    2He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.