Psalms 78:39

For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

In Context

38Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.

40How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeeres.

Job 7:16I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.

Psalms 103:14For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust.

James 4:14(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth 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 →

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