New King James Version
Psalms 90:13
13Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity 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 knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. 12So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants. 14Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days! 15Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which 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 6:4Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake!
- Psalms 80:14Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts; Look down from heaven and see, And visit this vine
- Jeremiah 12:15Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.
- Joel 2:13So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.
- Zechariah 1:16‘Therefore thus says the Lord: “I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; My house shall be built in it,” says the Lord of hosts, “And a surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
- Psalms 89:46How long, Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire?
- Psalms 106:45And for their sake He remembered His covenant, And relented according to the multitude of His mercies.
- Psalms 135:14For the Lord will judge His people, And He will have compassion on His servants.
- Exodus 32:14So the Lord relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
- Deuteronomy 32:36“For the Lord will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.
- 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 set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred.
- Amos 7:3So the Lord relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said the Lord.
- Jonah 3:9Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away 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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