Psalms 89:9

For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

In Context

8You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.

10The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.

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Cross References

Psalms 29:10What use would there be in my blood, if I descend into corruption? Will dust confess to you or announce your truth?

Psalms 66:5May the nations rejoice and exult. For you judge the peoples with equity, and you direct the nations on earth.

Isaiah 11:5And justice will be the belt around his waist. And faith will be the warrior’s belt at his side.

Nahum 1:4He is the one who rebukes the sea, and who dries it up, and who leads all the rivers to the desert. Basan has been weakened, and also Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon has languished.

Matthew 14:32And when they had ascended into the boat, the wind ceased.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 89:6-15

The Divine Power and Justice; The Glory of God Celebrated. 5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord : thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord ? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord ? 7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. 8 O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? 9 Thou… Read the whole commentary →

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