English Standard Version
Psalms 90:13
13Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants.
- New Living Translation (NLT)O Lord, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants!
Context of Psalms 90:13
11Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you? 12So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants! 14Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.
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, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
- Psalms 80:14Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
- Jeremiah 12:15And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.
- Joel 2:13and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
- Zechariah 1:16Therefore, thus says the Lord, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the Lord of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.
- Psalms 89:46How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
- Psalms 106:45For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
- Psalms 135:14For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
- Exodus 32:14And the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.
- Deuteronomy 32:36For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
- Hosea 11:8How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
- Amos 7:3The Lord relented concerning this: "It shall not be," said the Lord.
- Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may 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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