Psalms · American Standard Version (1901)
Psalm 90 American Standard Version (1901)
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.
1 A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
2 Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
3 You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
4 For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.
7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
12 So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
12 So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
14 Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory upon their children.
16 Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.
17 And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 33:27; 1 John 4:16; Psalm 71:3; Psalm 91:1; Ezekiel 11:16
- 2 Hebrews 13:8; Genesis 1:1; Psalm 102:24–27; Revelation 1:8; Psalm 93:2
- 3 Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Psalm 104:29; Psalm 146:4; Numbers 14:35
- 4 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 39:5; Matthew 24:43; Luke 12:38; Matthew 14:25
- 5 Isaiah 40:6; Job 22:16; Psalm 73:20; 1 Peter 1:24; Psalm 103:15–16
- 6 Job 14:2; Psalm 92:7; James 1:11; Matthew 6:30
- 7 Psalm 39:11; Exodus 14:24; Numbers 17:12–13; Romans 2:8–9; Deuteronomy 2:14–16
- 8 Jeremiah 16:17; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Psalm 19:12; Hebrews 4:12–13; Jeremiah 23:24
- 9 Psalm 78:33; Psalm 39:5; Psalm 90:4
- 10 James 4:14; Psalm 78:39; 2 Samuel 19:35; Genesis 47:9; Deuteronomy 34:7
- 11 Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 33:14; Leviticus 26:24; Revelation 6:17; Deuteronomy 28:59
- 12 Ephesians 5:16–17; Psalm 39:4; John 9:4; Deuteronomy 32:29; Proverbs 4:7
- 13 Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 106:45; Psalm 135:14; Psalm 80:14; Jonah 3:9
- 14 Psalm 23:6; Psalm 85:6; Psalm 86:4; Psalm 31:7; Psalm 103:3–5
- 15 Psalm 30:5; Psalm 126:5–6; John 16:20; Isaiah 40:1–2; Isaiah 12:1
- 16 Habakkuk 3:2; Psalm 44:1; Deuteronomy 32:4; Deuteronomy 1:39; Numbers 14:15–24
- 17 Proverbs 16:3; 1 Corinthians 3:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:16–3:1; Job 22:28; Isaiah 26:12
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Understand, beloved, this Psalm, which I am about to explain, by the grace of God, of our hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, and be of good cheer, because He who promised, will fulfil all, as He has fulfilled much: for it is not our own merit, but His mercy, that gives us confidence in Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… Abraham lived 175 of, and after him his son Isaac 180, and his son Jacob nearly 150, and some time after, Moses 120, and men now seventy or eighty, or not much longer, of which years it is said, "their strength is labor and sorrow." But that discrepancy of numbers which is found to exist between our own and the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Or if even this is so (for time flies, and a thousand years are in God's sight as one day, or as a watch in the night,) yet we cannot believe that He intended any such meaning on this occasion, especially as He went on to say, "Ye shall seek me, and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)