Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”
Isaiah 57:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For I will not continually accuse, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirits would grow faint before me, even the souls that I have made. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For I will not contend forever, neither will I be angry always, for [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would faint and be consumed before Me, and [My purpose in] creating the souls of men would be frustrated. American Standard Version (1901) For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made. Common English Bible I won’t always accuse, nor will I be enraged forever. It is my own doing that their spirit is exhausted— I gave them breath! Catholic Public Domain Version For I will not contend unceasingly, and I will not be angry to the end. For I will exhale my breath, and the Spirit will go forth from my face. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, end breathings I will make. |
Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”
But when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented concerning the evil and said to the angel who was bringing destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
By expulsion, by exile you struggled against them; with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:
Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Correct me, O Lord, but in just measure; not in your anger, or you will bring me to nothing.
will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?” This is how you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.
So King Zedekiah swore an oath in secret to Jeremiah, “As the Lord lives, who gave us our lives, I will not put you to death or hand you over to these men who seek your life.”
Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins who shall die.
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity; he maintained his anger perpetually and kept his wrath forever.
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.
An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:
They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”
Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?