KJV King James Version
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
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Psalm 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
WEB World English Bible
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
ASV American Standard Version
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
Surrounding context — Psalm 90
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
10 The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath.
12 So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.
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Psalm 78:33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.Psalm 39:5Behold, 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.Psalm 90:4For 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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