Psalms 90 · Verse 11

Psalms 90:11

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psalms 90:11, King James Version

Psalms 90:11 in other translations

BSBWho knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
WEBWho knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
ASVWho knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
YLTWho knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear--Thy wrath?
DARBYWho knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
BBEWho has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?
WebsterWho knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

What does Psalms 90:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. The whole verse may be read as a question implying the negative, "No one knows what Thy anger can do, and what Thy wrath is, estimated by a true piety."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Who knoweth the power of thine angers - The afflictions of this life are not to be compared to the miseries which await them who live and die without being reconciled to God, and saved from their sins.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 90:7-11

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…

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Psalms 90:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מִֽי\־mi-who?H4310
י֭וֹדֵעַYo.de.a'[is] knowingH3045
עֹ֣ז'oz[the] strength ofH5797
אַפֶּ֑ךָ'a.Pe.khaanger yourH639
וּ֝כְיִרְאָתְךָ֗u.khe.yir.'a.te.khaand [is] like fear yourH3374
עֶבְרָתֶֽךָ\׃'ev.ra.Te.khafury yourH5678

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 90:11

  • Nahum 1:6

    Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

  • Isaiah 33:14

    The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

  • Leviticus 26:24

    Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

  • Revelation 6:17

    For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

  • Deuteronomy 28:59

    Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

  • Deuteronomy 29:20-29

    The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: …

  • 2 Corinthians 5:11

    Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

  • Leviticus 26:21

    And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

  • Leviticus 26:18

    And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

  • Luke 12:5

    But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

  • Leviticus 26:28

    Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

  • Psalms 76:7

    Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Le 26:18,21,24,28; De 28:59; 29:20-29; Isa 33:14; Na 1:6; Lu 12:5
2Co 5:11; Re 6:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 90:10

    The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

  • Psalms 90:11

    Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

  • Psalms 90:12

    So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

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Psalms 90:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Quién conoce la fortaleza de tu ira, y tu indignación según que debes ser temido?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Qui connaît la force de ta colère, et, selon ta crainte, ton courroux?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wer erkennt die Stärke deines Zornes, und, deiner Furcht gemäß, deinen Grimm?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quoniam angelis suis mandavit de te, ut custodiant te in omnibus viis tuis.