Psalms 89:47
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
American Standard 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 Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Cross References
Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
Psalms 119:84How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
James 4:14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth 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 →