Psalms 89:48
Who can live without seeing death? Who can rescue their life from the clutch of Sheol? Selah
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In Context
47Remember, Lord, the shortness of life how fleeting you made all people.
49Where, Lord, is your kindness of old, which you in your faithfulness swore to David?
Cross References
Psalms 22:29To him will bow down all who sleep in the earth, and before him bend all who go down to the dust, and those who could not preserve their lives.
Psalms 49:7For assuredly no one can ransom themselves, or give to God the price of their life,
Psalms 119:84How few are the days of your servant! When will you judge those who harass me?
Acts 2:27For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption.
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 →