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Psalm 78:39

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78:39He remembered45 that they were made of flesh,

and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.46

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Psalm 78:39: He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

Footnotes

  1. 45 The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive signals a return to the narrative.
  2. 46 Heb “and he remembered that they [were] flesh, a wind [that] goes and does not return.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He remembered that they were but flesh,

a wind that passes and comes not again.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He remembered that they were but flesh,

a passing breeze that does not return.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He remembered that they were only flesh,

a wind that passes and does not return.

NLTNew Living Translation

For he remembered that they were merely mortal,

gone like a breath of wind that never returns.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

for he remembered that they were flesh,

a passing wind that does not return.

KJV 1900King James Version

For he remembered that they were but flesh;

A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.