Psalms 78:39

World English Bible (2000)

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 6:3 : 3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
  • Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For he knows how we are made. 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. Its place remembers it no more.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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

    38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

  • Ps 78:40
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    40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

  • Ps 103:14-16
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    14 For he knows how we are made. 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. Its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

    15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

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    29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

  • Ps 78:27-30
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    27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

    28 He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

    29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

    30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

  • Ps 78:11
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    11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

  • Ps 78:42
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    42 They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

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

    45 He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

  • Ps 78:33-35
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    33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

    34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

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

  • Isa 40:7
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    7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

  • Isa 63:11
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    11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?

  • Ps 106:13
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    13 They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,

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    47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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    4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • Job 21:18
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    18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Hos 13:6
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    6 According 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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    17 and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

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    12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

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    22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

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    24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

  • Ps 78:18
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    18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

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    20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

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    11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."

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    27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

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    8 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

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    17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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    9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

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    9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

  • Ps 78:50
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    50 He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

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    20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

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    39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

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    2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

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    17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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    15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."

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    8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.