Psalms 90:9 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 90:9

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

BSB

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ASV

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

KJV

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath - Margin, “turned.” The Hebrew word - פנה pânâh - means to “turn;” then, to turn to or “from” anyone; and hence, to turn away as if to flee or depart. Here it means that our days seem to turn from us; to give the back to us; to be unwilling to remain with us; to leave us. This seems to be the fruit or result of the anger of God, as if he were unwilling that our days should attend us any longer.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

When they came out of Egypt there was not one feeble person among their tribes ( Ps. cv. 37 ); but now they were feeble. Their joyful prospect of a prosperous glorious life in Canaan was turned into the melancholy prospect of a tedious inglorious death in the wilderness; so that their whole life was now as impertinent a thing as ever any winter-tale was.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 4 (1874)

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. Justice shortened the days of rebellious Israel; each halting place became a graveyard; they marked their march by the tombs they left behind them. Because of the penal sentence their days were dried up, and their lives wasted away. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Yea, not their days only, but their years flew by them like a thought, swift as a meditation, rapid and idle as a gossip's story.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
כָל־	khol-	all	H3605 →
יָ֭מֵינוּ	Ya.mei.nu	days our	H3117 →
פָּנ֣וּ	pa.Nu	they turn	H6437 →
בְעֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ	ve.'ev.ra.Te.kha	in fury your	H5678 →
כִּלִּ֖ינוּ	ki.Li.nu	we finish	H3615 →
שָׁנֵ֣ינוּ	sha.Nei.nu	years our	H8141 →
כְמוֹ־	khe.mov-	like	H3644 →
הֶֽגֶה׃	He.geh	a sigh	H1899 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Psalms 90:4
For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
leads to
- 2 Peter 3:8
  Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
- Psalms 39:5
  You, 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
- Matthew 24:43
  But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
Through
Psalms 39:5
You, 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
leads to
- Psalms 89:47
  Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalms 144:4
  Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Psalms 62:9
  Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalms 90:9–10
  For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
  Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to…

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

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04Related verses

06About Psalms

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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