Psalms 90:10

The span of our life is seventy years, or, if we are strong, maybe eighty; yet is their breadth but empty toil, for swiftly they go, and we fly away.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.

11Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3But the Lord said: “My spirit will not abide in people forever, because they are flesh; therefore they will live for only a hundred and twenty years.”

Joshua 14:11and I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me on that mission. As my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war or any enterprise.

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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