Psalms 90:11

"The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away."

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes the brevity and often challenging nature of human life, suggesting that even a longer lifespan ultimately leads to labor and sorrow due to its fleeting nature. The contrast between the length of days and their quality underscores the transient and imperfect condition of earthly existence.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? -Who can measure it, or take a correct estimate of it, as it is manifest in cutting down the race of people? If the removal of people by death is to be traced to thine anger - or is, in any proper sense, an expression of thy wrath - who can measure it, or understand it? The cutting down of whole generations of people - of nations - of hundreds of million of human beings - of the great, the powerful, the mighty, as well as the weak and the feeble, is an amazing exhibition of the “power” - of the might - of God; and who is there that can fully understand thi

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