Psalm 89:47
New International Version
Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

New Living Translation
Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!

English Standard Version
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

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

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

New King James Version
Remember how short my time is; For what futility have You created all the children of men?

New American Standard Bible
Remember what my lifespan is; For what futility You have created all the sons of mankind!

NASB 1995
Remember what my span of life is; For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

NASB 1977
Remember what my span of life is; For what vanity Thou hast created all the sons of men!

Legacy Standard Bible
Remember what my span of life is; For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

Amplified Bible
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!

Christian Standard Bible
Remember how short my life is. Have you created everyone for nothing?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Remember how short my life is. Have You created everyone for nothing?

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Remember me from the pit, because it is not for nothing that you have created all the children of men!

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

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

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

English Revised Version
O remember how short my time is: for what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Remember how short my life is! Have you created Adam's descendants for no reason?

Good News Translation
Remember how short my life is; remember that you created all of us mortal!

International Standard Version
Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

JPS Tanakh 1917
O remember how short my time is; For what vanity hast Thou created all the children of men!

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

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

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

NET Bible
Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

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

New Heart English Bible
Remember how short my time is. Have you created the descendants of Adam for no reason?

Webster's Bible Translation
Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?

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

Young's Literal Translation
Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire? 47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men! 48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah…

Cross References
Job 7:7
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Job 10:9
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Job 14:1
"Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Psalm 39:5
You, 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

Psalm 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Futility of futilities," says the Teacher, "futility of futilities! Everything is futile!"

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.


Treasury of Scripture

Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

remember

Psalm 39:5,6
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah…

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

Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

wherefore

Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

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Psalm 89
1. The psalmist praises God for his covenant
5. For his wonderful power
15. For the care of his church
19. For his favor to the kingdom of David
38. Then complaining of contrary events
46. He expostulates, prays, and blesses God.














(47) Remember.--The text of this clause runs, Remember I how duration, which might possibly be an incoherent sob, meaning remember how quickly I pass. But since the transposition of a letter brings the clause into conformity with Psalm 39:4, "how frail I am," it is better to adopt the change.

Wherefore hast thou . . .--Literally, for what vanity hast thou created all men?

"Count all the joys thine hours have seen,

Count all the days from anguish free,

And know, whatever thou hast been,

'Twere something better not to be."--BYRON.

Verse 47. - Remember how short my time is. Consider how short-lived is the whole race of men. Come, therefore, to our deliverance quickly. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? literally, for what vanity thou hast made all the sons of men. Another point suggested for God's consideration, as fitted to call forth his compassion.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Remember
זְכָר־ (zə·ḵār-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

how
מֶה־ (meh-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

short
חָ֑לֶד (ḥā·leḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2465: Life, the world

is my lifespan.
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

For
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

what
מַה־ (ma·hō·šā-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

futility
שָּׁ֝֗וְא (w)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7723: Evil, idolatry, uselessness

You have created
בָּרָ֥אתָ (bā·rā·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1254: To create, to cut down, select, feed

all
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

men!
אָדָֽם׃ (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being


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