- Bible
- Psalms
- Chapter 90
- Verse 9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
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Gill's Exposition
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath,.... The life of man is rather measured by days than by months or years; and these are but few, which pass away or "decline" (g) as the day does towards…
Barnes' Notes
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath - Margin, “turned.” The Hebrew word - פנה pânâh - means to “turn;” then, to turn to or “from” anyone; and hence, to turn away as if to flee or depart.…
Moses had, in the foregoing verses, lamented the frailty of human life in general; the children of men are as a sleep and as the grass. But here he teaches the people of Israel to confess before God…
Cambridge Bible
are passed away Lit. turnor declinetowards evening (Jer 6:4). We are "a generation of thy wrath" (Jer 7:29). Our life is drawing to a close under a cloud; there is no sign of -light at…