1 Chronicles 29:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And `to' my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I `am' with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 `And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land `is' Mine, for sojourners and settlers `are' ye with Me;
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 A sojourner I `am' on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh `is' grass, and all its goodliness `is' As a flower of the field: 7 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people `is' grass; 8 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, 14 for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; 15 and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, 16 but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings `are' an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
  • Ps 90:9 : 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

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    9(For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

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    15but with him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day,

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    12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And `to' my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I `am' with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

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    9For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

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    4`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.

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    10Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.

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    15`O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteous `art' Thou, for we have been left an escape, as `it is' this day; lo, we `are' before Thee in our guilt, for there is none to stand before Thee concerning this.'

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    20Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

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    14for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

  • 2 Chr 6:31
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    31so that they fear Thee, to walk in Thy ways, all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

  • Ps 103:14-15
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    14For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we `are' dust.

    15Mortal man! as grass `are' his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

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    36`Lo, we -- to-day -- `are' servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we `are' servants on it,

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6for our fathers have trespassed, and done that which is evil in the eyes of Jehovah our God, and forsake him, and turn round their faces from the tabernacle of Jehovah, and give the neck.

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    19When ye are few of number, As a little thing, and sojourners in it.

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    15have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;

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    40so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

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    12To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

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    20We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

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    11My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

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    27but a witness it `is' between us and you, and between our generations after us, to do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, and your sons do not say hereafter to our sons, Ye have no portion in Jehovah.

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    9And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives `are' in captivity for this.

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    2As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.