Psalms 90:9

For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered spider:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

10the days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

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Cross References

Psalms 39:5I spoke with my tongue : O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days : that I may know what is wanting to me.

Psalms 78:33And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:8-12

Penitent Submission. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 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. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even… Read the whole commentary →

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