Psalms 78:39

So then he remembered, That, Flesh, they were, A Wind departing, that returneth not.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, full of compassion, would put a propitiatory-covering over iniquity, and not destroy,—Yea, many a time, turned he back his anger, And would not stir up all his wrath.

40How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3And Yahweh said—My spirit shall not rule in man to times age—abiding, for that, he also, is flesh,—Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Job 7:16I am wasted away, Not, to times age-abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days.

Psalms 103:14For, he, knoweth how we are formed, He is mindful that, dust, we are.

James 4:14Men who are not versed in the morrow—of what sort your life [will be]; for ye are, a vapour—for a little, appearing, then, just disappearing!

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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