Psalms 90:10

"For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh."

Key Reflection

In Psalms 90:10, the author reflects on the brevity and sorrow of human life, emphasizing how days seem to quickly pass away due to God's anger. This sentiment would resonate deeply with the original audience, who lived in a time when divine wrath was often personified and directly experienced through natural disasters or social upheaval, making the fleeting nature of life particularly poignant.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The days of our years -Margin, “As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years.” Perhaps the language would better be translated: “The days of our years! In them are seventy years;” or, they amount to seventy years. Thus the psalmist is represented as reflecting on human life - on the days that make up the years of life; - as fixing his thought on those days and years, and taking the sum of them. The days of our years - what are they? Are threescore years and ten -Not as life originally was, but as it has been narrowed down to about that period; or, this is the ordinary limit of life.

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