Psalms 78:39

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He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

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  • Gen 6:3 : 3 Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not contend with humanity forever, because they are flesh; their days will be 120 years."
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?
  • Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field. 16 The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
  • John 3:6 : 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:37-38
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    78%

    37Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant.

    38Yet He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Time and again, He restrained His anger and did not stir up His full wrath.

  • Ps 78:40
    77%

    40How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!

  • Ps 103:14-16
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    76%

    14For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust.

    15As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field.

    16The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    72%

    14If He were to set His heart to it and gather to Himself His spirit and breath,

    15all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

  • Ps 78:27-30
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    72%

    27He rained meat on them like dust, birds like the sand of the sea.

    28He made them fall inside their camp, all around their dwellings.

    29They ate and were filled abundantly, for He gave them what they craved.

    30But while the food was still in their mouths, they were not yet free of their craving.

  • Ps 78:11
    72%

    11They forgot His deeds and the wonders He had shown them.

  • Ps 78:42
    72%

    42They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from their enemy,

  • Ps 106:44-45
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    72%

    44Yet He saw their distress when He heard their cry.

    45He remembered His covenant with them and relented according to the abundance of His lovingkindness.

  • Ps 78:33-35
    3 verses
    71%

    33So He ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

    34When He killed them, they sought Him; they repented and earnestly sought God.

    35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their Redeemer.

  • Isa 40:7
    70%

    7The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass.

  • Isa 63:11
    70%

    11Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people: Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who set his Holy Spirit among them,

  • Ps 106:13
    70%

    13But they quickly forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel.

  • Ps 89:47
    69%

    47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • Ps 144:4
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    4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  • Ps 146:4
    69%

    4When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

  • Job 21:18
    69%

    18They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.

  • Hos 13:6
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    6As they were fed, they were satisfied; as they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and so they forgot me.

  • Neh 9:17
    68%

    17They refused to listen and did not remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, and You did not abandon them.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12Their inward thought is that their houses will last forever, and their dwelling places for all generations; they call their lands by their own names.

  • Isa 2:22
    68%

    22Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,

  • Ps 78:18
    68%

    18They tested God in their hearts by demanding the food they craved.

  • Ps 78:20
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    20True, He struck the rock, and water gushed out, and streams overflowed. But can He also give us bread or provide meat for His people?

  • Ps 90:3
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    3You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.'

  • Hab 1:11
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    11Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on; but they are guilty—this strength of theirs is their god.

  • Job 34:27
    68%

    27Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

  • Ps 79:8
    68%

    8Do not hold against us the sins of our ancestors; may Your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.

  • Heb 3:17
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    17And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Ps 90:9
    67%

    9All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh.

  • Job 4:9
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    9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

  • Ps 78:50
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    50He prepared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

  • Neh 9:20
    67%

    20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold manna from their mouths, and You provided water for their thirst.

  • Ps 107:39
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    39Yet they were diminished and brought low through oppression, calamity, and sorrow.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.

  • Gen 6:3
    67%

    3Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not contend with humanity forever, because they are flesh; their days will be 120 years."

  • Job 6:17
    67%

    17but when they are warmed, they vanish; when heated, they disappear from their place.

  • Num 32:15
    67%

    15If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."

  • Ezek 37:8
    67%

    8I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.