Psalms 78:39

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 6:3 : 3 And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Oh, remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall see good no more.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech You, that You have made me as the clay; and will You bring me into dust again?
  • Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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    37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

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

  • Ps 78:40
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    40How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

  • Ps 103:14-16
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    14For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

    15As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14If He sets His heart upon man, if He gathers to Himself His spirit and His breath,

    15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29You hide Your face, they are troubled: You take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

  • Ps 78:27-30
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    27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

    28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.

    29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

    30They were not estranged from their desire. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

  • Ps 78:11
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    11And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.

  • Ps 78:42
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    42They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

  • Ps 106:44-45
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    44Nevertheless, he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry.

    45And he remembered for them his covenant, and relented according to the multitude of his mercies.

  • Ps 78:33-35
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    71%

    33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

    34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and sought diligently after God.

    35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

  • Isa 63:11
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    11Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit within him?

  • Ps 106:13
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    13They soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

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    47Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

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    4Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Job 21:18
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    18They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

  • Hos 13:6
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    6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.

  • Neh 9:17
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    17They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8And might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.

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    22Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for how much is he to be accounted of?

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    24Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

  • Ps 78:18
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    18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their desire.

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    20Behold, he struck the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

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    3You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

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    11Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; he commits offense, ascribing this power to his god.

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    27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

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    8O do not remember against us former iniquities; let Your tender mercies swiftly come to us, for we are brought very low.

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    17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Ps 90:9
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    9For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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    9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils they are consumed.

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    50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

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

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    39Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

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    2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

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    3And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.

  • Job 6:17
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    17At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

  • Num 32:15
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    15For if you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all this people.

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    8And when I looked, indeed, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.