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Bless the LORD, O My Soul

Psalms 103:16

In 11 translations

BSB
when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
KJV
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.it is…: Heb. it is not
WEB
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
ASV
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.
LSV
For a wind has passed over it, and it is not, || And its place does not discern it anymore.
YLT
For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.
DBY
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.
DRC102:16
For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.
GNV
For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.
JPS
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof knoweth it no more.
LXXE102:16
For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כִּ֤י ר֣וּחַ עָֽבְרָה־בּ֣וֹ וְאֵינֶ֑נּוּ וְלֹא־יַכִּירֶ֖נּוּ ע֣וֹד מְקוֹמֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br102:16
Ὅτι πνεῦμα διῆλθεν ἐν αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐχ ὑπάρξει, καὶ οὐκ ἐπιγνώσεται ἔτι τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
  • Job 20:9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
  • Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
  • Job 7:6–10My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness. The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look…
  • Genesis 5:24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
  • Job 27:20–21Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night. The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
  • Job 8:18–19If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 102:16 in some Bibles
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