Psalms 90:3
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
In Context
4For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Numbers 14:35I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
Job 34:14If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
Psalms 146:4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans 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 →