New Living Translation
Psalms 90:13
13O Lord, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take 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.
- 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 can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve. 12Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom. O Lord, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants! 14Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives. 15Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.
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, and rescue me. Save me because of your unfailing love.
- Psalms 80:14Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Take care of this grapevine
- Jeremiah 12:15But afterward I will return and have compassion on all of them. I will bring them home to their own lands again, each nation to its own possession.
- Joel 2:13Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish.
- Zechariah 1:16“‘Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I have returned to show mercy to Jerusalem. My Temple will be rebuilt, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, and measurements will be taken for the reconstruction of Jerusalem.’
- Psalms 89:46O Lord, how long will this go on? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?
- Psalms 106:45He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his unfailing love.
- Psalms 135:14For the Lord will give justice to his people and have compassion on his servants.
- Exodus 32:14So the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had threatened to bring on his people.
- Deuteronomy 32:36“Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people, and he will change his mind about his servants, when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.
- Hosea 11:8“Oh, how can I give you up, Israel? How can I let you go? How can I destroy you like Admah or demolish you like Zeboiim? My heart is torn within me, and my compassion overflows.
- Amos 7:3So the Lord relented from this plan. “I will not do it,” he said.
- Jonah 3:9Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”
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
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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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