Psalms 146:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 146:4

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

KJV

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ASV

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

WEB

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

YLT

His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

DBT

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

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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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Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Psalms 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
1 Corinthians 2:6
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

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): His breath goes forth, so it does every moment, and comes back again, but that is an intimation that it will shortly go for good and all, and then he returns to his earth. The earth is his, in respect of his original as a man, the earth out of which he was taken, and to which therefore he must return, according to the sentence, Gen. iii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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PSA 146:4GEN 2:7 ECC 12:7
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PSA 146:4GEN 2:7 JOB 33:4
PSA 146:4GEN 2:7 1CO 15:45
PSA 146:4GEN 2:7 ISA 64:8
PSA 146:4ECC 12:7 JOB 34:14-15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 146:4ECC 12:7 DAN 12:2
PSA 146:4GEN 2:7 ACT 17:25
PSA 146:4ECC 12:7 ECC 3:20-21

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