Psalms 90 · Verse 7

Psalms 90:7

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms 90:7, King James Version

Psalms 90:7 in other translations

BSBFor we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
WEBFor we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
ASVFor we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.
YLTFor we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.
DARBYFor we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
BBEWe are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
WebsterFor we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

What does Psalms 90:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 90:7-8
7-8. For--A reason, this is the infliction of God's wrath. troubled--literally, "confounded by terror" (Psa 2:5). Death is by sin (Ro 5:12). Though "secret," the light of God's countenance, as a candle, will bring sin to view (Pr 20:27; 1Co 4:5).

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 We are consumed by thine anger - Death had not entered into the world, if men had not fallen from God. By thy wrath are we troubled - Pain, disease, and sickness are so many proofs of our defection from original rectitude. The anger and wrath of God are moved against all sinners. Even in protracted life we consume away, and only seem to live in order to die. "Our wasting lives grow shorter still,As days and months increase; And every beating pulse we tellLeaves but the number less."

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 troublesome; and perhaps, in the midst of the years we count upon, it is cut off. We are taught by all this to stand in awe. The angels that sinned know the power of God's anger; sinners in hell know it; but which of us can fully describe it? Few seriously consider it as they ought. Those who make a mock at sin, and make light of Christ, surely do not know the power of God's anger. Who among us can dwell with that devouring fire?

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 90:7 in the original Hebrew

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כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
כָלִ֥ינוּkha.Li.nuwe come to an endH3615
בְאַפֶּ֑ךָve.'a.Pe.khain anger yourH639
וּֽבַחֲמָתְךָ֥u.va.cha.ma.te.Khaand by rage yourH2534
נִבְהָֽלְנוּ\׃niv.Hal.nuwe are terrifiedH926

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Cross references for Psalms 90:7

  • Psalms 39:11

    When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

  • Exodus 14:24

    And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

  • Numbers 17:12-13

    And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

  • Romans 2:8-9

    But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

  • Deuteronomy 2:14-16

    And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

  • Psalms 59:13

    Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

  • Psalms 90:11

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

  • Hebrews 3:10-11

    Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

  • Hebrews 3:17-4:2

    But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. …

  • Psalms 90:9

    For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For we.
9,11; 39:11; 59:13; Nu 17:12,13; De 2:14-16; Heb 3:10,11,17-19
Heb 4:1,2
are we.
Ex 14:24; Ro 2:8,9

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Context

  • Psalms 90:6

    In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • Psalms 90:7

    For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

  • Psalms 90:8

    Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

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Psalms 90:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque con tu furor somos consumidos, y con tu ira somos conturbados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car nous sommes consumés par ta colère, et nous sommes épouvantés par ta fureur.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn wir vergehen durch deinen Zorn, und durch deinen Grimm werden wir hinweggeschreckt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem millia a dextris tuis; ad te autem non appropinquabit.