Psalm 89:46-48

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴⁶ How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷ O [earnestly] remember how short my time is and what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, and frailty You have created all men!

⁴⁸ What man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Selah [pause, and calmly consider that]!