Psalm 89:47 {88:48}
Good News Translation
Remember how short my life is; remember that you created all of us mortal!

New Revised Standard Version
Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!

Contemporary English Version
Remember, life is short! Why did you empty our lives of all meaning?

New American Bible
Remember how brief life is, how frail the sons of man you have created!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

remember

Psalm 39:5,6 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. . . .

Psalm 119:84 How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Job 9:25,26 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good. . . .

Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust

wherefore

Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

Job 14:1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
46How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire? 47Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?48Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?…
Cross References
Job 7:7
Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust

Job 14:1
Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Psalm 39:5
Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 62:9
But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

Psalm 89:46
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