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From Everlasting to Everlasting

Psalms 90:13

In 11 translations

BSB
Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
KJV
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
WEB
Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.
ASV
Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
LSV
Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
YLT
Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.
DBY
Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
DRC89:13
Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.
GNV
Returne (O Lord, howe long?) and be pacified toward thy seruants.
JPS
Return, O LORD; how long? And let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants.
LXXE89:13
Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.

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Original-language editions

WLC
שׁוּבָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה עַד־מָתָ֑י וְ֝הִנָּחֵ֗ם עַל־עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br89:13
Ἐπίστρεψον, Κύριε· ἕως πότε; καὶ παρακλήθητι ἐπὶ τοῖς δούλοις σου.

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • Psalms 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
  • Psalms 135:14For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
  • Psalms 80:14Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
  • Amos 7:6So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
  • Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
  • Amos 7:3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
  • Joel 2:13–14So 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. Who knows? He may…
  • Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
  • 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!
  • Exodus 32:14So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.’
  • Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
  • Psalms 6:3–4My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long? Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.

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