Psalms 90:10 (LSB)

Passage

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to might, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and wickedness; For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Nearby Context

Psalms 90:8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Psalms 90:9 For all our days have declined in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh.

Psalms 90:10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to might, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and wickedness; For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Psalms 90:11 Who knows the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "days", "life", "contain", "seventy", "years", "might", and "eighty". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "days" and "life", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "For all our days have declined in..." into verse 11's "Who knows the power of Your anger...", so "days" and "life" belong inside that flow. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "days" and "life" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.