Psalms 90:9

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Majority Standard Bible

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

8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

10The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

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Cross References

Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

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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