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Psalm 89 (90) Catholic Public Domain Version

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 90 · About the recordings

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Psalm 89 in CPDV = Psalm 90 in RV1909.

CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
90:1 Oración de Moisés varón de Dios. SEÑOR, tú nos has sido refugio en generación y en generación.
2 Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.
90:2 Antes que naciesen los montes, y formases la tierra y el mundo, y desde el siglo y hasta el siglo, tú eres Dios.
3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.
90:3 Vuelves al hombre hasta ser quebrantado, y dices: Convertíos, hijos de los hombres.
4 For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night,
90:4 Porque mil años delante de tus ojos, son como el día de ayer, que pasó, y como una de las vigilias de la noche.
5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.
90:5 Háceslos pasar como avenida de aguas; son como sueño; como la hierba que crece en la mañana:
6 In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.
90:6 En la mañana florece y crece; á la tarde es cortada, y se seca.
7 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.
90:7 Porque con tu furor somos consumidos, y con tu ira somos conturbados.
8 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.
90:8 Pusiste nuestras maldades delante de ti, nuestros yerros á la luz de tu rostro.
9 For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web.
90:9 Porque todos nuestros días declinan á causa de tu ira; acabamos nuestros años como un pensamiento.
10 The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.
90:10 Los días de nuestra edad son setenta años; que si en los más robustos son ochenta años, con todo su fortaleza es molestia y trabajo; porque es cortado presto, y volamos.
11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath
90:11 ¿Quién conoce la fortaleza de tu ira, y tu indignación según que debes ser temido?
12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.
90:12 Enséñanos de tal modo á contar nuestros días, que traigamos al corazón sabiduría.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.
90:13 Vuélvete, oh Jehová: ¿hasta cuándo? y aplácate para con tus siervos.
14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.
90:14 Sácianos presto de tu misericordia: y cantaremos y nos alegraremos todos nuestros días.
15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.
90:15 Alégranos conforme á los días que nos afligiste, y los años que vimos mal.
16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.
90:16 Aparezca en tus siervos tu obra, y tu gloria sobre sus hijos.
17 And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.
90:17 Y sea la luz de Jehová nuestro Dios sobre nosotros: y ordena en nosotros la obra de nuestras manos, la obra de nuestras manos confirma.
Cross references (17)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.

  1. 1 Deuteronomy 33:27; 1 John 4:16; Psalm 71:3; Psalm 91:1; Ezekiel 11:16
  2. 2 Hebrews 13:8; Genesis 1:1; Psalm 102:24–27; Revelation 1:8; Psalm 93:2
  3. 3 Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Psalm 104:29; Psalm 146:4; Numbers 14:35
  4. 4 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 39:5; Matthew 24:43; Luke 12:38; Matthew 14:25
  5. 5 Isaiah 40:6; Job 22:16; Psalm 73:20; 1 Peter 1:24; Psalm 103:15–16
  6. 6 Job 14:2; Psalm 92:7; James 1:11; Matthew 6:30
  7. 7 Psalm 39:11; Exodus 14:24; Numbers 17:12–13; Romans 2:8–9; Deuteronomy 2:14–16
  8. 8 Jeremiah 16:17; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Psalm 19:12; Hebrews 4:12–13; Jeremiah 23:24
  9. 9 Psalm 78:33; Psalm 39:5; Psalm 90:4
  10. 10 James 4:14; Psalm 78:39; 2 Samuel 19:35; Genesis 47:9; Deuteronomy 34:7
  11. 11 Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 33:14; Leviticus 26:24; Revelation 6:17; Deuteronomy 28:59
  12. 12 Ephesians 5:16–17; Psalm 39:4; John 9:4; Deuteronomy 32:29; Proverbs 4:7
  13. 13 Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 106:45; Psalm 135:14; Psalm 80:14; Jonah 3:9
  14. 14 Psalm 23:6; Psalm 85:6; Psalm 86:4; Psalm 31:7; Psalm 103:3–5
  15. 15 Psalm 30:5; Psalm 126:5–6; John 16:20; Isaiah 40:1–2; Isaiah 12:1
  16. 16 Habakkuk 3:2; Psalm 44:1; Deuteronomy 32:4; Deuteronomy 1:39; Numbers 14:15–24
  17. 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

Articles and answers on this site that cite Psalm 90 (Hebrew/English numbering).

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). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 90.

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXXIX)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 90:10 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XV, Chapters 13–14)

    … 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)

  3. Quotes verse 90:4 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapters XIII–XIII)

    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)