Psalms 78:39

And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

In Context

38But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.

40How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Job 7:16I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

Psalms 103:14for he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

James 4:14Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:10-40

Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime… Read the whole commentary →

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