Psalms 144:4
and my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
In Context
5I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.
Job 4:19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
Job 14:1Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
Psalms 39:5I spoke with my tongue : O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days : that I may know what is wanting to me.
Psalms 39:11Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
Psalms 89:47How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?
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 →