Psalms 144:4
Generation after generation will praise your works, and they will declare your power.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
In Context
3The Lord is great and exceedingly praiseworthy. And there is no end to his greatness.
5They will tell of the magnificent glory of your sanctity. And they will discourse of your wonders.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14We are all dying, and we are all like waters that flow into the ground and do not return. God does not will to lose a soul. Instead, he renews his efforts, thinking that what has been rejected might not perish altogether.
Job 4:19How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
Job 14:1Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
Psalms 39:5Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.
Psalms 39:11I have not concealed your justice within my heart. I have spoken your truth and your salvation. I have not concealed your mercy and your truth from a great assembly.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:2-9
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. 1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. 3 Lord , what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord , and… Read the whole commentary →