Psalms 90:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

Psalms 90:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 78:33
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Topics

Life

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-11)

Moses had, in the Ps. 90:1-6, lamented the frailty of human life in general; the children of men are as a sleep and as the grass. But here he teaches the people of Israel to confess before God that righteous sentence of death which they were under in a special manner, and which by their sins they had brought upon themselves. Their share in the common lot of mortality was not enough, but they are,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. are passed--literally, “turn,” as to depart (Jr 6:4). spend--literally, “consume.” as a tale--literally, “a thought,” or, “a sigh” (Eze 2:10).