Psalms 89:47
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
In Context
46How long, O LORD? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Cross References
Job 7:7O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 119:84How many are the days of thy servant? When will thou execute judgment on those who persecute me?
James 4:14men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
Matthew Henry on Psalms 89:39-52
Complaints and Expostulations; David's Expostulation with God. 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. 41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 43… Read the whole commentary →