1 Chronicles 29:15
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.
Cross-references
In Genesis 47:9, Jacob calls his life a sojourning — the same image David uses here to describe human transience before God.
In 1 Peter 2:11, Peter calls believers sojourners and exiles — directly applying the same identity from David's prayer here.
James 4:14 compares life to a vanishing mist, reinforcing the same transient nature as the shadow.
Hebrews 11:13-16 expands on the sojourner identity — the patriarchs lived as strangers, just as David confesses here, longing for a heavenly home.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 also compares life to a passing shadow, echoing the brevity David expresses.
Psalm 144:4 repeats the 'passing shadow' simile, strengthening the transience theme.
Psalm 119:19 also uses 'sojourner on the earth', reinforcing the transient identity David expresses here.
Psalm 102:11 uses the same 'shadow' image for human frailty, directly reinforcing David's words.
Psalm 90:9 echoes life's fleeting nature under God's wrath, paralleling the shadow metaphor here.
Psalm 39:12 echoes the same sojourner metaphor — David again calls himself a guest before God, mirroring his prayer here.
Job 14:2 compares life to a fleeting shadow — the same metaphor David uses here for human transience.
Job 8:9 uses the identical 'days on earth are a shadow' metaphor, reinforcing the same theme of human transience.
Leviticus 25:23 declares God's people strangers and sojourners with Him, directly underlying David's confession.
1 Peter 1:17 explicitly calls believers to live in fear during their time of exile, directly echoing the 'strangers and sojourners' concept.
Genesis 23:4 has Abraham saying 'I am a stranger and a sojourner', the exact phrase David echoes.
Exodus 2:22 records Moses calling himself a sojourner, linking to the same identity of God's people.
Psalm 109:23 also compares life to a passing shadow, but in a personal lament context — a similar image of transience.
Isaiah 40:6-8 uses grass/withering for human frailty, complementing the shadow metaphor here.