Psalms 89:47

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Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
  • Job 14:1 : 1 The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah) 6 Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
  • Ps 119:84 : 84 How long must your servant endure this? When will you judge those who pursue me?
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness. 26 They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 39:4-7
    4 verses
    81%

    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

    6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

    7But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!

  • Ps 89:48-49
    2 verses
    80%

    48No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)

    49Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?

  • Ps 89:45-46
    2 verses
    78%

    45You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame.(Selah)

    46How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?

    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

  • Job 7:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

    7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

  • Job 7:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

    10The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

  • Job 17:1
    74%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Job 10:20
    74%

    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Ps 90:3
    74%

    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

  • Ps 102:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

    24I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

  • Job 6:11
    74%

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Ps 4:2
    73%

    2You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive?(Selah)

  • Job 10:5
    73%

    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • Job 17:11
    73%

    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

  • Isa 38:12
    73%

    12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • Job 7:1
    72%

    1The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Isa 38:10
    72%

    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

  • Job 10:9
    72%

    9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

  • Job 14:10
    72%

    10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?

  • Lam 5:20
    72%

    20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

  • Job 10:18
    72%

    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • Job 7:20
    72%

    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

  • Ps 13:1
    72%

    1For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?

  • Job 9:29
    71%

    29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

  • Ps 39:11
    71%

    11You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)

  • Ps 90:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

    13Turn back toward us, O LORD! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

  • Job 17:15
    71%

    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

  • Ps 146:4
    71%

    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • Ps 88:14
    71%

    14O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

  • Ps 8:4
    71%

    4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?

  • Eccl 6:11
    71%

    11The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?

  • Job 18:3
    71%

    3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

  • Job 20:4
    71%

    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,