Quotes About Reflection

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night

How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.