Psalms 78:39
So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
In Context
40How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'
Job 7:16I loathe it; I shall not live alway; let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Psalms 103:14For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.
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 →