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Psalms 90:11
11Lord, nobody knows all the power of your anger. It is your anger that causes people to be afraid of you.
Psalms 90:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
- New International Version (NIV)If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
Context of Psalms 90:11
9Your anger gives us trouble all through our lives. Then our lives end in a short groan. 10The number of our days make 70 years, or maybe 80 years if we are strong enough. But even in the best years of our lives, we have trouble and pain. Our lives quickly pass, and we hurry towards death. Lord, nobody knows all the power of your anger. It is your anger that causes people to be afraid of you. 12Teach us to count carefully the days of our short lives. Then we will be wise in how we live. 13Lord, return to help us! How long will you be angry with us? Please be kind to us, your servants!
Read all of Psalms 90Psalms 90:11 word by word
מִֽי־י֭וֹדֵעַ עֹ֣ז אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּ֝כְיִרְאָתְךָ֗ עֶבְרָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 90:11
- Leviticus 26:18The people may not obey God even after this. If they do not, God will punish them seven times more strongly.
- Deuteronomy 28:59If you refuse to do that, the Lord will punish you and your descendants more and more. You will have lots of pain and many kinds of terrible disease that will not get better.
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will never forgive that person. He will be very angry with him. The Lord will punish him in all the terrible ways that are written in this book. The Lord will destroy him completely so that his family name comes to an end.
- Isaiah 33:14The sinners who live in Zion are afraid. The people who do not respect God shake with fear. They ask, ‘Who among us can stay alive? This is a fire that burns everything. Nobody can stop it from burning!’
- Nahum 1:6Nobody can fight God when he is very angry. The Lord pours his anger out like fire and he breaks the rocks in his path.
- Luke 12:5But I tell you, it is God that you should be afraid of. He has the power to kill people and then to throw them into hell. Yes, I am telling you, be very afraid of him.
- 2 Corinthians 5:11We know that the Lord will judge us, so we are careful to obey him. Because of that, we tell God's message to people. We want them to believe in God. And God himself knows that we try to do what is right. I hope that you know that also, when you think about it.
- Revelation 6:17Their great day has come. They will punish us because they are so angry. Nobody will be able to escape.’
Commentaries on Psalms 90:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Who knoweth the power of thine angers - The afflictions of this life are not to be compared to the miseries which await them who live and die without being reconciled to God, and saved from their sins.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? - Who can measure it, or take a correct estimate of it, as it is manifest in cutting down the race of people? If the removal of people by death is to be traced to thine anger - or is, in any proper sense, an expression of thy wrath - who can measure it, or understand it? The cutting down of whole generations of people - of nations - of hundreds of million of human beings - of the great, the powerful, the mighty, as…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-11Verses 7-11 The afflictions of the saints often come from God's love; but the rebukes of sinners, and of believers for their sins, must be seen coming from the displeasure of God. Secret sins are known to God, and shall be reckoned for. See the folly of those who go about to cover their sins, for they cannot do so. Our years, when gone, can no more be recalled than the words that we have spoken. Our whole life is toilsome and troublesome; and perhaps, in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-12In the search for wisdom, no one can fully understand the Lord (see Isaiah 40:13). The right human response to the Lord is godly fear (see Psalm 60:4). The Lord alone can teach humans to follow the path of wisdom (Psalm 25:4–6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. The whole verse may be read as a question implying the negative, "No one knows what Thy anger can do, and what Thy wrath is, estimated by a true piety."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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