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Psalms 90:9
9For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
Psalms 90:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
- New International Version (NIV)All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh.
- New Living Translation (NLT)We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our years with a groan.
Context of Psalms 90:9
7For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. 8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh. 10The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. 11Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?
Read all of Psalms 90Psalms 90:9 word by word
כִּ֣י כָל־יָ֭מֵינוּ פָּנ֣וּ בְעֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ כִּלִּ֖ינוּ שָׁנֵ֣ינוּ כְמוֹ־הֶֽגֶה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 90:9
- Psalms 78:33So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
- Psalms 90:4For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
- Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Commentaries on Psalms 90:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9We spend our years as a tale - The Vulgate has: Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur; "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web; life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those that constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile, habitation of that insect. All the Versions have the word spider; but it neither appears in the Hebrew, nor in any of its MSS. which have been…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath - Margin, “turned.” The Hebrew word - פנה pânâh - means to “turn;” then, to turn to or “from” anyone; and hence, to turn away as if to flee or depart. Here it means that our days seem to turn from us; to give the back to us; to be unwilling to remain with us; to leave us. This seems to be the fruit or result of the anger of God, as if he were unwilling that our days should attend us any longer. Or, it is 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. 9-10A groan of sorrow (Ezekiel 2:10) represents a life facing the consequences of sin. Humans create trouble (see Psalm 10:6) and receive pain as a result.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. are passed--literally, "turn," as to depart (Jr 6:4). spend--literally, "consume." as a tale--literally, "a thought," or, "a sigh" (Eze 2:10).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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