God’s Word Translation
Psalms 90:13
13Return, Lord! How long … ? Change your plans about ⌞us,⌟ 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 fully understands the power of your anger? A person fears you more when he better understands your fury. 12Teach us to number each of our days so that we may grow in wisdom. Return, Lord! How long … ? Change your plans about ⌞us,⌟ your servants. 14Satisfy us every morning with your mercy so that we may sing joyfully and rejoice all our days. 15Make us rejoice for as many days as you have made us suffer, for as many years as we have experienced 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 6:4Come back, O Lord. Rescue me. Save me because of your mercy!
- Psalms 80:14O God, commander of armies, come back! Look from heaven and see! Come to help this vine.
- Jeremiah 12:15After I’ve uprooted them, I will have compassion on them again. I will return them to their inheritance and to their lands.
- Joel 2:13Tear your hearts, not your clothes. Return to the Lord your God. He is merciful and compassionate, patient, and always ready to forgive and to change his plans about disaster.
- Zechariah 1:16This is what the Lord of Armies says: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion. My house will be rebuilt in it, declares the Lord of Armies. A measuring line will be used to rebuild Jerusalem.
- Psalms 89:46How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger continue to burn like fire?
- Psalms 106:45He remembered his promise to them. In keeping with his rich mercy, he changed his plans.
- Psalms 135:14The Lord will provide justice for his people and have compassion on his servants.
- Exodus 32:14So the Lord reconsidered his threat to destroy his people.
- Deuteronomy 32:36The Lord will judge his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees that their strength is gone and that no one is left, neither slaves nor free people.
- Hosea 11:8“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboim? I have changed my mind. I am deeply moved.
- Amos 7:3The Lord changed his plans about this. “This won’t happen,” the Lord said.
- Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may reconsider his plans and turn from his burning anger so that we won’t die.”
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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