Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 90:15
15Make us rejoice for as many days as you have humbled us, for as many years as we have seen adversity.
Psalms 90:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
- New International Version (NIV)Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen evil.
Context of Psalms 90:15
13Lord — 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. Make us rejoice for as many days as you have humbled us, for as many years as we have seen adversity. 16Let your work be seen by your servants, and your splendor by their children. 17Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish for us the work of our hands — establish the work of our hands!
Read all of Psalms 90Psalms 90:15 word by word
שַׂ֭מְּחֵנוּ כִּימ֣וֹת עִנִּיתָ֑נוּ שְׁ֝נ֗וֹת רָאִ֥ינוּ רָעָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 90:15
- Psalms 30:5For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor, a lifetime. Weeping may stay overnight, but there is joy in the morning.
- Psalms 126:5Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
- Isaiah 12:1On that day you will say: “I will give thanks to you, Lord, although you were angry with me. Your anger has turned away, and you have comforted me.
- Isaiah 40:1“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
- Isaiah 61:3to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the Lord to glorify him.
- Isaiah 65:18Then be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.
- Jeremiah 31:12They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant with joy because of the Lord’s goodness, because of the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil, and because of the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like an irrigated garden, and they will no longer grow weak from hunger.
- Matthew 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- John 16:20Truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.
- Revelation 7:14I said to him, “Sir, you know.” Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Deuteronomy 2:14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
Commentaries on Psalms 90:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Make us glad according to the days - Let thy people have as many years of prosperity as they have had of adversity. We have now suffered seventy years of a most distressful captivity.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us - Let the one correspond with the other. Let our occasions of joy be measured by the sorrows which have come upon us. As our sufferings have been great, so let our joys and triumphs be. And the years wherein we have seen evil - Affliction and sorrow. They have been continued through many wearisome years; so let the years of peace and joy be many also.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. 15The psalmist calls upon the Lord to give the people gladness to replace their mourning (see Psalm 92:4–5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. As have been our sorrows, so let our joys be great and long.Read the comment
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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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