A moment in scripture
Psalms 144:4
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Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 144:2
My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
- Psalms 144:3
Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
- Psalms 144:5
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
- Psalms 144:6
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.