Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 90:13
13Lord — how long? Turn and have compassion on your servants.
Psalms 90:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
- New International Version (NIV)Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants.
Context of Psalms 90:13
11Who understands the power of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear that is due you. 12Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts. Lord — how long? Turn and have compassion on your servants. 14Satisfy us in the morning with your faithful love so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days. 15Make us rejoice for as many days as you have humbled us, for as many years as we have seen adversity.
Read all of Psalms 90Psalms 90:13 word by word
שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה עַד־מָתָ֑י וְ֝הִנָּחֵ֗ם עַל־עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 90:13
- Psalms 6:4Turn, Lord! Rescue me; save me because of your faithful love.
- Psalms 80:14Return, God of Armies. Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine,
- Jeremiah 12:15After I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
- Joel 2:13Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.
- Zechariah 1:16Therefore, this is what the Lord says: In mercy, I have returned to Jerusalem; my house will be rebuilt within it — this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies — and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.
- Psalms 89:46How long, Lord? Will you hide forever? Will your anger keep burning like fire?
- Psalms 106:45remembered his covenant with them, and relented according to the abundance of his faithful love.
- Psalms 135:14For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
- Exodus 32:14So the Lord relented concerning the disaster he had said he would bring on his people.
- Deuteronomy 32:36The Lord will indeed vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees that their strength is gone and no one is left — slave or free.
- Hosea 11:8How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred!
- Amos 7:3The Lord relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.
- Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.
Commentaries on Psalms 90:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Return, O Lord, how long? - Wilt thou continue angry with us for ever? Let it repent thee - הנחם hinnachem, be comforted, rejoice over them to do them good. Be glorified rather in our salvation than in our destruction.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Return, O Lord - Come back to thy people; show mercy by sparing them. It would seem probable from this that the psalm was composed in a time of pestilence, or raging sickness, which threatened to sweep all the people away - a supposition by no means improbable, as such times occurred in the days of Moses, and in the rebellions of the people when he was leading them to the promised land. How long? - How long shall this continue? How long shall thy wrath…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-17Verses 12-17 Those who would learn true wisdom, must pray for Divine instruction, must beg to be taught by the Holy Spirit; and for comfort and joy in the returns of God's favour. They pray for the mercy of God, for they pretend not to plead any merit of their own. His favour would be a full fountain of future joys. It would be a sufficient balance to former griefs. Let the grace of God in us produce the light of good works. And let Divine consolations…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13The phrase Your servants refers to the community of those loyal to the Lord.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. (Compare Psa 13:2). let it repent--a strong figure, as in Ex 32:12, imploring a change in His dealings.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Psalms 90
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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