Psalms 89:47

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

ASV

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

LSV

Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC88:48

Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

GNV

Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

JPS89:48

O remember how short my time is; for what vanity hast Thou created all the children of men!

LXXE88:48

Remember what my being is: for hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?

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Original-language editions

WLC89:48

זְכָר־אֲנִ֥י מֶה־חָ֑לֶד עַל־מַה־שָּׁ֝֗וְא בָּרָ֥אתָ כָל־בְּנֵי־אָדָֽם׃KJV:Ps.89.47

LXX-Br88:48

Μνήσθητι τίς ἡ ὑπόστασίς μου· μὴ γὰρ ματαίως ἔκτισας πάντας τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
• Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
• Job 9:25–26My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good. They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
• Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Psalms 39:5–6You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he…
• Psalms 119:84How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?

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