Psalms 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
World English Bible Classic
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 often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
Cross References
Genesis 6:3The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Psalms 103:14For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
James 4:14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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 →