For (A)all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a [a]sigh.
10 As for the days of our [b]life, [c]they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, (B)eighty years,
Yet their pride is but (C)labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we (D)fly away.
11 Who [d]understands the (E)power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the (F)fear [e]that is due You?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:9 Or whisper
  2. Psalm 90:10 Lit years
  3. Psalm 90:10 Lit in them are
  4. Psalm 90:11 Or knows
  5. Psalm 90:11 Lit of You

All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.(A)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,(B)
    or eighty,(C) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(D)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(E)
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
    Your wrath(F) is as great as the fear that is your due.(G)

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