历代志上 29:15

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我們在你面前是客旅，是寄居的，像我們的列祖一樣；我們在世上的日子好像影兒，沒有指望。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 们 在 你 面 前 是 客 旅 ， 是 寄 居 的 ， 与 我 们 列 祖 一 样 。 我 们 在 世 的 日 子 如 影 儿 ， 不 能 长 存 ( 或 作 没 有 长 存 的 指 望 ) 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ David praised the Lord in front of all the people who were gathered. He said: "We praise you, Lord , God of our father Israel. We praise you forever and ever. ¹¹ Lord , you are great and powerful. You have glory, victory, and honor. Everything in heaven and on earth belongs to you. The kingdom belongs to you, Lord ; you are the ruler over everything. ¹² Riches and honor come from you. You rule everything. You have the power and strength to make anyone great and strong. ¹³ Now, our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name. ¹⁴ "These things did not really come from me and my people. Everything comes from you; we have given you back what you gave us. ¹⁵ We are like foreigners and strangers, as our ancestors were. Our time on earth is like a shadow. There is no hope. ¹⁶ Lord our God, we have gathered all this to build your Temple for worship to you. But everything has come from you; everything belongs to you. ¹⁷ I know, my God, that you test people's hearts. You are happy when people do what is right. I was happy to give all these things, and I gave with an honest heart. Your people gathered here are happy to give to you, and I rejoice to see their giving. ¹⁸ Lord , you are the God of our ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Make your people want to serve you always, and make them want to obey you. ¹⁹ Give my son Solomon a desire to serve you. Help him always obey your commands, laws, and rules. Help him build the Temple for which I have prepared."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For we: Genesis 47:9, Psalms 39:12, Psalms 119:19, Hebrews 11:13-16, 1 Peter 2:11

our days: Job 14:2, Psalms 90:9, Psalms 102:11, Psalms 144:4, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Isaiah 40:6-8, James 4:14

abiding: Heb. expectation

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:34 - General Genesis 23:4 - stranger Exodus 2:22 - for he said Leviticus 25:23 - for ye are 1 Chronicles 17:11 - when thy 2 Chronicles 6:10 - I am risen Job 8:9 - we are but Psalms 109:23 - gone 2 Corinthians 5:6 - whilst Ephesians 3:8 - is this 1 Peter 1:17 - pass

Cross-References

Genesis 30:28
Tell me what I should pay you, and I will give it to you."

Genesis 31:7
but he cheated me and changed my pay ten times. But God has not allowed your father to harm me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers,.... For though they were in possession of the land of Canaan, yet they held it not in their own right, but as the Lord's,

who said, the land is mine, Leviticus 25:23, they were but tenants in it, and were not to abide long here; they belonged to another city and country; the consideration of which might tend to set them loose to worldly things, and the more easily to part with them for the service of God, and the honour of his name:

our days on the earth are as a shadow; man's life is expressed by days, not months and years, being so short; and by days on earth, in distinction from the days of heaven, or eternity; and these said to be as a shadow, of a short continuance, empty, mutable, and uncertain, dark and obscure, quickly gone, like the shadow of the sun; and not only like that, or of a mountain, tree or wall; but, as the Targum, of a bird that is flying, which passes away at once:

and [there is] none abiding; not long, much less always, being but sojourners as before; so Cato in Cicero p is represented as saying,

"I depart out of this life as from an inn, and not an house; for nature has given us an inn to sojourn, not a place to dwell in:''

or "there is no hope or expectation" q; of living long, of recalling time, and of avoiding death.

p De Senectute, c. 23. q אין מקוה "non est expectatio sive spes", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Michaelis.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 29:15. For we are strangers — We have here neither right nor property.

And sojourners — Lodging as it were for a night, in the mansion of another.

As were all our fathers — These were, as we are supported by thy bounty, and tenants at will to thee.

Our days on the earth are as a shadow] They are continually declining, fading, and passing away. This is the place of our sojourning, and here we have no substantial, permanent residence.

There is none abiding. — However we may wish to settle and remain in this state of things, it is impossible, because every earthly form is passing swiftly away, all is in a state of revolution and decay, and there is no abiding, מקוה mikveh, no expectation, that we shall be exempt from those changes and chances to which our fathers were subjected. "As the shadow of a bird flying in the air [ avir] of heaven, such are our days upon the earth; nor is there any hope to any son of man that he shall live for ever." - Targum.