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Psalm 90:9

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90:9Yes,15 throughout all our days we experience your raging fury;16

the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.17

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Footnotes

  1. 15 Or “for.”
  2. 16 Heb “all our days pass by in your anger.”
  3. 17 Heb “we finish our years like a sigh.” In Ezek 2:10 the word הֶגֶה (hegeh) elsewhere refers to a grumbling or moaning sound. Here a brief sigh or moan is probably in view. If so, the simile pictures one’s lifetime as transient. Another option is that the simile alludes to the weakness that characteristically overtakes a person at the end of one’s lifetime. In this case the phrase could be translated, “we end our lives with a painful moan.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For all our days pass away under your wrath;

we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

All our days pass away under your wrath;

we finish our years with a moan.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For all our days ebb away under your wrath;

we end our years like a sigh.

NLTNew Living Translation

We live our lives beneath your wrath,

ending our years with a groan.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For all of our days dwindle away in your rage;

we complete our years like a sigh.

KJV 1900King James Version

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:

We spend our years as a tale that is told.