Psalms 78:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Psalms 78:39 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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.
Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:16
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-39)

In these verses, I. The psalmist observes the late rebukes of Providence that the people of Israel had been under, which they had brought upon themselves by their dealing treacherously with God, Ps. 78:9-11. The children of Ephraim, in which tribe Shiloh was, though they were well armed and shot with bows, yet turned back in the day of battle. This seems to refer to that shameful defeat which the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 39)

33-39. Though there were partial reformations after chastisement, and God, in pity, withdrew His hand for a time, yet their general conduct was rebellious, and He was thus provoked to waste and destroy them, by long and fruitless wandering in the desert.