Psalm 90 Free Bible Version
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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, through every generation, you have been “home” for us!
1 A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the universe, from eternity past to eternity future, you are 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 You turn people back into dust, saying, “Return to dust, human beings.”
3 You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
4 In your eyes, a thousand years are like a day that's already gone; like a few passing hours of 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 You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—
5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
6 it sprouts in the morning, fresh and new, but by the evening it is withered and dead.
6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
7 We are burned up by your anger, terrified by your fury.
7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
8 You have set out our sins before you—our secret sins are visible in the light of your presence.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 Our lives fade away under your anger, coming to an end as quickly 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 We live for seventy years—eighty if we have the strength. But even in the prime of life all that we have is hardship and suffering. Soon our lives are over and we're gone.
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 can know the power of your anger? Who understands your fury so you can be shown reverence?
11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
12 Teach us to value every one of our days so we can live wisely!
12 So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Lord, how long will it be before you come back to us and have pity on us your servants?
13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
14 Show us every morning your trustworthy love so we may be happy, full of joy throughout our lives.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you made us sad, for all the years we suffered!
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
16 May we, your servants, see you at work for us again; may our children see your glory.
16 Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.
17 May our Lord God be pleased with us, blessing what we do, blessing what we do.
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)