Psalms 89:9

For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have + 89:9 Gr. mediated.spun out their tale as a spider.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.

10As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and + 89:10 Or, what is more than these.the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

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Cross References

Psalms 29:10What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? or shall it declare thy truth?

Psalms 66:5Let the nations rejoice and exult, for thou shalt judge the peoples in equity, and shalt guide the nations on the earth. Pause.

Isaiah 11:5And he shall have his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.

Nahum 1:4He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Libanus have come to nought.

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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