1 Chronicles 29:15

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.

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WEBBE

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.

BSB

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

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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כִּי־ ki- for H3588 גֵרִים ge·rim [are] sojourners H1616 אֲנַחְנוּ 'a·nach·nu we H587 לְפָנֶיךָ le·fa·nei·kha (to) before you H6440 וְתוֹשָׁבִים ve·to·sha·vim and resident aliens H8453 כְּכָל־ ke·khol- like all H3605 אֲבֹתֵינוּ 'a·vo·tei·nu ancestors our H1 כַּצֵּל ka·tzel [are] like (the) shadow H6738 יָמֵינוּ ya·mei·nu days our H3117 עַל־ 'al- on H5921 הָאָרֶץ ha·'a·retz the earth H776 וְאֵין ve·'ein and there not H369 מִקְוֶה mik·veh [is] hope H4723

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 10–19

We cannot form a right idea of the magnificence of the temple, and the buildings around it, about which such quantities of gold and silver were employed. But the unsearchable riches of Christ exceed the splendour of the temple, infinitely more than that surpassed the meanest cottage on earth. Instead of boasting of these large oblations, David gave solemn thanks to the Lord. All they gave for the Lord's temple was his own; if they attempted to keep it, death would soon have removed them from it. The only use they could make of it to their real advantage, was, to consecrate it to the service of Him who gave it.

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