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Psalms 89:47
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Remember how short my life is.Have you created everyone for nothing?
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
Remember how short my life is. Why did you create us? For nothing?
Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
Remember how fleeting my lifetime is; For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
Remember what my lifespan is; For what futility You have created all the sons of mankind!
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?
Remember what my span of life is;For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!
Remember how short is my lifespan. For what futility You have created all men!
Remember, life is short! Why did you empty our lives of all meaning?
How long, Adonai ? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your fury burn like fire?
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
Remember how short my life is. You created us to live a short life and then die.
Remember me from the time I was created; for thou hast not created all men in vain.
Remember how short my life is; remember that you created all of us mortal!
Remember what my lifespan is. Remember for what vanity you have created all the children of humankind.
Remember, I pray, the time of life; for what vanity have you created all the sons of men?
Sela. LORDE, how longe wilt thou hyde thy self? For euer? shal thy wrath burne like fyre?
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
How long, O LORD, wilt Thou hide Thyself for ever? How long shall Thy wrath burn like fire?
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vaine?
Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?
Remember what my being is: for hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?
O remember how short my time is: for what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Bithenke thou what is my substaunce; for whether thou hast ordeyned veynli alle the sones of men?
Remember me: How short is my lifetime? For what vanity have you created all the sons of man?
Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?
Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!
Remember how fast my life is passing. You have made all men for nothing.
Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!
Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?
(88-48) Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?
Remember, O Lord, what the measure of life is, for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!
Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
Remember what my span of life is; For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Remember: Psalms 39:5, Psalms 39:6, Psalms 119:84, Job 7:7, Job 9:25, Job 9:26, Job 10:9
wherefore: Psalms 144:4, Job 14:1, James 4:14
Reciprocal: Genesis 47:9 - an hundred 2 Kings 20:3 - remember Psalms 103:14 - he knoweth Ecclesiastes 1:4 - One generation Ecclesiastes 2:17 - for Ecclesiastes 3:19 - for Ecclesiastes 6:12 - the days of his vain life Isaiah 63:11 - he remembered Lamentations 3:19 - Remembering
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Remember how short my time is,.... In this world man's time here is fixed, and it is but a short time; his life is but a vapour, which appeareth for a little while; his days are as an hand's breadth; they pass away like a tale that is told; the common term of life is but threescore years and ten, and few arrive to that: to know and observe this is proper and useful; it may awaken a concern for a future state, excite to a vigorous discharge of duty, and animate to patience under afflictions: the clause in connection with the preceding verse seems to be a plea for mercy; that, since time was short, it might not be consumed in bearing the wrath of God; but be spent in peace and comfort, like that of Job 10:20: Compare with this Psalms 103:13, the Targum is,
"remember that I am created out of the dust:''
but these words, with what follow, are the words of the psalmist, representing the apostles of Christ, and other saints, at the time of his sufferings and death, and when under the power of the grave, and when they were almost out of hope of his resurrection: see Luke 24:21, expostulating with the Lord on that account; and here entreat him to remember the shortness of their time, if there was no resurrection from the dead, as there would be none if Christ rose not; and therefore, as their life was a short one, it would be of all men's the most miserable:
wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? none of the sons of men are made in vain; for they are all made for the glory of God, which end is answered, some way or another, in everyone of them; either in the salvation of them by Christ, or in the just destruction of them through their own sin; and though the time of life is short, and afflictions many, yet men are not made in vain, and especially those of them who believe in Christ; for, for them to live is Christ, they live to his glory: whether they live a longer or shorter time, they live to the Lord; and when they die, they die to him; and their afflictions are always for good, temporal, or spiritual, and eternal: indeed, if there was no future state after this, men might seem to be made in vain, and there might be some reason for such a question or complaint; but so it is not; there is an immortal life and state after this, either of bliss or woe: also, if there was no such thing as the redemption, justification, and salvation of any of the sons of men, through the sufferings and death of Christ, and which could not be without his resurrection from the dead, with a view to which the question is put, then there would seem some room for it; but there is a redemption of them, and therefore are not made in vain; and Christ, who was delivered for their offences, is risen for their justification.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Remember how short my time is - The word rendered “time” - חלד cheled - means duration; lifetime. Psalms 39:5. Then it means life; time; age; the world. Literally, here, “Remember; I; what duration.” The meaning is plain. Bear in remembrance that my time must soon come to an end. Life is brief. In a short period the time will come for me to die; and if these promises are fulfilled to me, it must be done soon. Remember that these troubles and sorrows cannot continue for a much longer period without exhausting all my appointed time upon the earth. If God was ever to interpose and bless him, it must be done speedily, for he would soon pass away. The promised bestowment of favor must be conferred soon, or it could not be conferred at all. The psalmist prays that God would remember this. So it is proper for us to pray that God would bless us soon; that he would not withhold his grace now; that there may be no delay; that he would (we may say it with reverence) bear in remembrance that our life is very brief, and that if grace is to be bestowed in order to save us, or in order to make us useful, it must be bestowed soon. A young man may properly employ this prayer; how much more appropriately one who is rapidly approaching old age, and the end of life!
Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? - As thou dost seem to have done, since they accomplish so little in the world, and since so many appear wholly to miss the great purpose of life! Nothing, in certain moods of mind, will strike one more forcibly or more painfully than the thought that the mass of people seem to have been made in vain. Nothing is accomplished by them worthy of the powers with which they are endowed; nothing worthy of so long living for; nothing worthy of the efforts which they actually put forth. In a large portion of mankind there is an utter failure in securing even the objects which they seek to secure; in numerous cases, when they have secured the object, it is not worth the effort which it has cost; in all cases, the same effort, or an effort made less strenuous, laborious, costly, and continuous, would have secured an object of real value - worth all their effort - the immortal crown!
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 89:47. How short my time is — If thou deliver not speedily, none of the present generations shall see thy salvation. Are all the remnants of our tribes created in vain? shall they never see happiness?
