Psalms 90:9

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 90:9 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
  2. Psalms 39:5You, 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
  3. Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
  4. Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
  5. Psalms 90:4For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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