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9For all our days are passed away{H8804)} in thy wrath: we spend{H8765)} our years as a tale that is told.
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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
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.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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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,…
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