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From Everlasting to Everlasting

Psalms 90:9

In 11 translations

BSB
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
KJV
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.passed…: Heb. turned awayas a…: or, as a meditation
WEB
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
ASV
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
LSV
For all our days pined away in Your wrath, || We consumed our years as a meditation.
YLT
For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
DBY
For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.
DRC89:9
For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:
GNV
For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought.
JPS
For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath; we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.
LXXE89:9
For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.Gr. mediated.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּ֣י כָל־יָ֭מֵינוּ פָּנ֣וּ בְעֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ כִּלִּ֖ינוּ שָׁנֵ֣ינוּ כְמוֹ־הֶֽגֶה׃
LXX-Br89:9
Ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι ἡμῶν ἐξέλιπον, καὶ ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ σου ἐξελίπομεν· τὰ ἔτη ἡμῶν ὡς ἀράχνη ἐμελέτων.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
  • 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
  • Psalms 90:4For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 89:9 in some Bibles
  • 90:9 in most Bibles

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