39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.


In Context

36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;

37 their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.

38 Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.

39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

40 How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!

41 Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 78:39 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

78:39For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

78:39And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

78:39And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:39And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

78:39And he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

78:39And He remembereth that they are flesh, A wind going on — and it returneth not.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

78:39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away, and comes not again.