Psalms 78:39

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

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

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

In Context

38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be an hundred and twenty years.

Job 7:16I loathe my life; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Psalms 103:14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

James 4:14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then 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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