Psalms 90:16
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
Psalms 90:16 in other translations
| BSB | May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children. |
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| WEB | Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children. |
| ASV | Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory upon their children. |
| YLT | Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons. |
| DARBY | Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons. |
| BBE | Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory to their children. |
| Webster | Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children. |
What does Psalms 90:16 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 90:12-17
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…
Psalms 90:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 90:16
- Habakkuk 3:2
O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
- Psalms 44:1
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
- Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
- Numbers 14:15-24
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. …
- Psalms 77:12
I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
- Joshua 4:22-24
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.
- Joshua 23:14
And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
- Numbers 14:30-31
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
- Psalms 92:4
For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
44:1; Nu 14:15-24; Hab 3:2
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Nu 14:30,31; De 1:39; Jos 4:22-24; 23:14
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Context
- Psalms 90:15
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
- Psalms 90:16
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
- Psalms 90:17
And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Psalms 90:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Aparezca en tus siervos tu obra, y tu gloria sobre sus hijos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Que ton œuvre apparaisse à tes serviteurs, et ta majesté à leurs fils. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Laß deinen Knechten erscheinen dein Tun, und deine Majestät ihren Söhnen! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Longitudine dierum replebo eum, et ostendam illi salutare meum. |