Psalms 146:4
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth.In that very day, his thoughts perish.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
In Context
3Do not put your trust in princes,each a son of man in whom there is no help.
5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,whose hope is in the Lord, his God:
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low.Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 17:1"My spirit is consumed.My days are extinct,And the grave is ready for me.
Job 27:3(For the length of my life is still in me,and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Psalms 90:3You turn man to destruction, saying,"Return, you children of men."
Ecclesiastes 9:6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 146:2-5
The Divine Bounty. 1 Praise ye the Lord . Praise the Lord , O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the Lord : I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought, 1. That he should be exempted from the service of praising… Read the whole commentary →