Thematic Bible
Psalm 90:1 (show verse)
Psalm 90:2 (show verse)
Before the mountains were born
Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.
Psalm 90:3 (show verse)
You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”
Psalm 90:4 (show verse)
For a
Are like yesterday when it is past,
Or as a watch in the night.
Psalm 90:5 (show verse)
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
Psalm 90:6 (show verse)
In the morning it flourishes and springs up;
In the evening it wilts and withers away.
Psalm 90:7 (show verse)
For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been terrified.
Psalm 90:8 (show verse)
You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.
Psalm 90:9 (show verse)
For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.
Psalm 90:10 (show verse)
The days of our life are
Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;
Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone and we fly away.
Psalm 90:11 (show verse)
Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?]
And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?
Psalm 90:12 (show verse)
So teach us to number our days,
That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.
death » Preparation for
natural Death » Pray to be prepared for
Exhortations » Special » To redeem the time
The Heart » Should be » Applied unto wisdom
natural Life » Shortness of, should lead to spiritual improvement
Prayer » Seven earnest suppliants » For wisdom
Redeeming the time » How secured » By realizing the brevity of life
Time » Redeeming the » By realizing the brevity of life
Wisdom » True wisdom, general references to » Prayer for
natural Death » Pray to be prepared for
Exhortations » Special » To redeem the time
The Heart » Should be » Applied unto wisdom
natural Life » Shortness of, should lead to spiritual improvement
Prayer » Seven earnest suppliants » For wisdom
Redeeming the time » How secured » By realizing the brevity of life
Time » Redeeming the » By realizing the brevity of life
Wisdom » True wisdom, general references to » Prayer for
Psalm 90:13 (show verse)
Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?
Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.
Psalm 90:14 (show verse)
O satisfy us with Your lovingkindness in the morning [now, before we grow older],
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psalm 90:15 (show verse)
Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have suffered evil.
Psalm 90:16 (show verse)
Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants
And Your [glorious] majesty to their children.
Psalm 90:17 (show verse)
And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us;
Confirm for us the work of our hands—
Yes, confirm the work of our hands.