Psalms 90:3
Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
In Context
4For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
Numbers 14:35I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Job 34:14If he only thought of himself, [and] gathered unto him his spirit and his breath,
Psalms 146:4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:2-7
God's Care of His People; Frailty of Human Life. 1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they… Read the whole commentary →