Psalms 144:4
Generation after generation shall praise your works, and tell of your power. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
In Context
3The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and there is no end to his greatness. 1
5And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of your holiness, and recount your wonders. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14For we shall surely die, and be as water poured upon the earth, which shall not be gathered up, and God shall take the life, even as he devises to thrust forth from him his outcast.
Job 4:19But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.
Job 14:1For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of wrath.
Psalms 39:5O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number. 1
Psalms 39:11But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually. 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:2-9
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. 1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. 3 Lord , what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord , and… Read the whole commentary →