The Meaning of Psalms 90:9 Explained

Psalms 90:9

KJV: For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

YLT: For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

Darby: For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.

ASV: For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

For all our days  are passed away  in thy wrath:  we spend  our years  as a tale  [that is told]. 

What does Psalms 90:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Psalms 90:1-17 - The Message Of The Passing Years
The majestic music of this great psalm separates it from all the rest. It is like the deep bass stop of a mighty organ. Moses' authorship is stamped upon it. It is worthy of the man who had seen God face to face.
Psalms 90:1-6. The transitoriness of human life is contrasted with the stability of God. He is the asylum and home of all the generations of mankind, Deuteronomy 33:27. The earth and its mountains the universe and its worlds, were born of Him; but He Himself had no origin, no beginning. Time is but a sigh, a breath, the swift rush of the mountain-torrent, a tale told by the camp-fire at night, the grass of a morning's growth.
Psalms 90:7-12. A wail is borne in these verses from the forty years of wanderings. The ceaseless succession of graves was the bitter harvest of Israel's rebellions. Oh, that we might apply our hearts to wisdom that we may not fail of God's rest!
Psalms 90:13-17. In the closing words Moses utters a sublime prayer which includes us all. Let us seek to do some good work before we go, and may our children be a nobler generation than ourselves! But all beauty of character and permanence of work must emanate from God. [source]

Chapter Summary: Psalms 90

1  Moses, setting forth God's providence
3  Complains of human fragility
7  Divine chastisement
10  and brevity of life
12  He prays for the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good providence

What do the individual words in Psalms 90:9 mean?

For all our days have passed away in Your wrath we finish our years like a sigh
כִּ֣י כָל־ יָ֭מֵינוּ פָּנ֣וּ בְעֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ כִּלִּ֖ינוּ שָׁנֵ֣ינוּ כְמוֹ־ הֶֽגֶה

יָ֭מֵינוּ  our  days 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
פָּנ֣וּ  have  passed  away 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: פֹּונֶה 
Sense: to turn.
בְעֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ  in  Your  wrath 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular construct, second person masculine singular
Root: עֶבְרָה  
Sense: outpouring, overflow, excess, fury, wrath, arrogance.
כִּלִּ֖ינוּ  we  finish 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, first person common plural
Root: כָּלָה  
Sense: to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent.
שָׁנֵ֣ינוּ  our  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
כְמוֹ־  like 
Parse: Preposition
Root: כְּמֹו  
Sense: like, as, the like of which conj.
הֶֽגֶה  a  sigh 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: הֶגֶה  
Sense: a rumbling, growling, moaning.

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