Psalm 146:4-5 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.… At death a man sees all those thoughts which were not spent upon God to be fruitless. A Scythian captain having, for a draught of water, yielded up a city, cried out, "What have I lost? What have I betrayed?" So will it be with that man when he comes to die who hath spent all his meditations upon the world; he will say, "What have I lost? What have I betrayed? I have lost heaven, I have betrayed my soul." Should not the consideration of this fix our minds upon the thoughts of God and glory? All other meditations are fruitless; like a piece of ground which hath much cost laid out upon it, but it yields no crop. (I. Watson.) Parallel Verses KJV: His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.WEB: His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish. |
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