Psalms 90:13

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“Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.”

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BSBPD

“Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 90:13 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
  2. Exodus 32:14So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
  3. Numbers 10:36And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”
  4. Deuteronomy 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
  5. Psalms 6:3My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?
  6. Psalms 6:4Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
  7. Psalms 6:5For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
  8. Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
  9. Psalms 80:14Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
  10. Psalms 80:15the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
  11. Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
  12. Psalms 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
  13. Psalms 135:14For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
  14. Isaiah 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
  15. Jeremiah 12:15But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
  16. Hosea 11:8How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
  17. Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
  18. Amos 7:3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
  19. Amos 7:6So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
  20. Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
  21. Zechariah 1:16Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’

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