Psalms 89:47 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 89:47

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

KJV

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ASV

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

WEB

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

YLT

Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

DBT

Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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17 verses on the floor

James 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.
Psalms 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.
Psalms 103:14
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

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): Remember how short my time is, how transitory I am (say some), therefore unable to bear the power of thy wrath, and therefore a proper object of thy pity.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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PSA 89:47JAS 4:14 1PE 1:24
PSA 89:47JAS 4:14 PSA 39:5
PSA 89:47JAS 4:14 1JN 2:17
PSA 89:47JOB 14:1 JOB 5:7
PSA 89:47JAS 4:14 PSA 102:3
PSA 89:47JAS 4:14 JOB 7:6-7
PSA 89:47JOB 14:1 ECC 2:23
PSA 89:47JOB 14:1 JOB 25:4

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