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Psalms 90:9

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

KJV

Quoniam tu es, Domine, spes mea ; Altissimum posuisti refugium tuum.

Vulgate

ὅτι σύ, Κύριε, ἡ ἐλπίς μου· τὸν ὕψιστον ἔθου καταφυγήν σου.

LXX

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

ASV

כִּ֣י כָל יָ֭מֵי/נוּ פָּנ֣וּ בְ/עֶבְרָתֶ֑/ךָ כִּלִּ֖ינוּ שָׁנֵ֣י/נוּ כְמוֹ הֶֽגֶה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הֶ֖גֶה
hgh
noun · 3×
וֹ
v
noun · 33×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יִּ֤פֶן
ypn
verb · 135×
כְּמוֹ
kmv
preposition · 142×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 203×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 29:15 — For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
  • 1John 2:17 — And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
  • Eccl 12:3 — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
  • Jer 20:18 — Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
  • Ps 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.
  • Ps 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.
  • Ps 78:33 — Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.