Psalms 78:39

So he remembered that they were but flesh, breath that passes and does not return.

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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 full of pity: he pardons sin and destroys not. Often he turns his anger away, without stirring his wrath at all.

40But how often they rebelled in the desert, and caused him grief in the wilderness,

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3But the Lord said: “My spirit will not abide in people forever, because they are flesh; therefore they will live for only a hundred and twenty years.”

Psalms 103:14for well he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust.

James 4:14yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a puff of smoke that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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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