1 Chronicles 29:15
For 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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 21:34And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.
Genesis 47:9He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.
Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)
Job 14:10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
Psalms 39:13Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication : give ear to my tears. Be not silent : for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
Psalms 102:11Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 29:11-23
David's Prayer to God; Sacrifices Offered. ( b. c. 1015.) 10 Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O Lord , is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord , and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine… Read the whole commentary →