Psalms 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psalms 90:9 in other translations
| BSB | For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh. |
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| WEB | For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. |
| ASV | For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh. |
| YLT | For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. |
| DARBY | For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought. |
| BBE | For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath. |
| Webster | For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale that is told. |
What does Psalms 90:9 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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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…
Psalms 90:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 90:9
- Psalms 78:33
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
- Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
- Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
78:33
passed. Heb. turned. we spend.The Vulgate has, {Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur,} "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the Versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew MSS., or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," {kemo hegeh.}
a tale. Heb. a meditation.
4; 39:5
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Context
- Psalms 90:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- Psalms 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
- 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 90:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque todos nuestros días declinan á causa de tu ira; acabamos nuestros años como un pensamiento. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car tous nos jours s’en vont par ta grande colère; nous consumons nos années comme une pensée. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn alle unsere Tage schwinden durch deinen Grimm, wir bringen unsere Jahre zu wie einen Gedanken. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quoniam tu es, Domine, spes mea; Altissimum posuisti refugium tuum. |