Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
KJV
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
ASV
עַד מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תִּסָּתֵ֣ר לָ/נֶ֑צַח תִּבְעַ֖ר כְּמוֹ אֵ֣שׁ חֲמָתֶֽ/ךָ
Hebrew
Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
YLT
Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֵ֖שׁ
'sh
noun · 376×
בִֽעַרְתָּ֥
b'rt
verb · 91×
י
y
noun · 124×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
כְּמוֹ
kmv
preposition · 142×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
נִי
ny
verb · 82×
נֶ֑צַח
ntsch
noun · 43×
עַד
'd
noun · 1257×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 11.—Of the Substance of the People of God, Which Through His Assumption of Flesh is in Christ, Who Alone Had Power to Deliver His Own Soul from Hell. But after having prophesied these things, the prophet betakes him to praying to God; yet even the very prayer is prophecy: “How long, Lord, dost Thou turn away in the end?”10591059 Ps. lxxxix. 46. “Thy face” is understood,…
Cross-references
- Eccl 1:4 — One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
- Eccl 3:19 — For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a
- Jas 4:14 — Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
- Jas 4:14 — Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
- Job 7:7 — O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- Job 7:7 — O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
- Job 10:9 — Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
- Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Ps 39:5 — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
- Ps 103:14 — For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
- Ps 119:84 — How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
- Ps 144:4 — Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.