Psalms 90:9

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

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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

8Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.

10The 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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Cross References

Psalms 39:5See! My days you have made but a span, and my life is as nothing before you. It is but as a breath that everyone stands: Selah

Psalms 78:33So he ended their days in a breath, and their years in sudden dismay.

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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