New English Translation
Psalms 146:4
4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
Psalms 146:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
- New International Version (NIV)When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
- English Standard Version (ESV)When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
- New King James Version (NKJV)His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish.
Context of Psalms 146:4
2I will praise the Lord as long as I live! I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist! 3Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver! Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die. 5How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, 6the one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who remains forever faithful,
Read all of Psalms 146Psalms 146:4 word by word
תֵּצֵ֣א ר֭וּחוֹ יָשֻׁ֣ב לְאַדְמָת֑וֹ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַ֝ה֗וּא אָבְד֥וּ עֶשְׁתֹּנֹתָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 146:4
- Psalms 104:29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
- Genesis 2:7The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 6:17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
- Job 14:10But man dies and is powerless; he expires – and where is he?
- Job 17:1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
- Job 27:3for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
- Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
- Psalms 90:3You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
- Ecclesiastes 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
- Job 14:21If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.
- Job 17:11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
- Isaiah 2:22Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
- Lamentations 4:20Our very life breath – the Lord’s anointed king – was caught in their traps, of whom we thought, “Under his protection we will survive among the nations.” ש (Sin/Shin)
- 1 Corinthians 2:6Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
Commentaries on Psalms 146:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4His breath goeth forth - He dies like other people, no matter how exalted he is. See the notes at Isaiah 2:22. He returneth to his earth - See the notes at Psalm 90:3. The earth - the dust - is “his” - (a) It is his, as that from which he was made: he turns back to what he was. Genesis 3:19: “dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” (b) The earth - the dust - the grave is his, as it is his home - the place where he will abide. (c) It is his, as it…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-10The call to praise (Psalm 146:1–2) leads to a warning against foolishness and false confidence (146:3–4). The psalm ends with a blessing for everyone who places their hope in the Lord (Psalm 146:5–7).Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 4his thoughts Heb. עשתונותיו his thoughts.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 146
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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