Psalm 39:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days, that I may learn how frail I am.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

2 Samuel 19:34

The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for your old age as my guest in Jerusalem.”

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Psalm 144:4

Man is but a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

Take your plague away from me; I am ravaged by the touch of your hand.

Psalm 62:9

Trust God at all times, my people! Pour out your hearts to God our refuge! Selah

Psalm 89:47

How long, Lord? Will you hide forever? Must your wrath smolder like fire?

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the fruit of the toil for which I had toiled so much, see! all was vanity and a chase after wind. There is no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

Before him all the nations are as nought, as nothing and void he counts them.

James 4:14

you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.