Psalms 90:11 (WEB)

Passage

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Nearby Context

Psalms 90:9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Psalms 90:10 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.

Psalms 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Psalms 90:12 So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalms 90:13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "knows", "power", "anger", "wrath", and "fear". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "knows" and "power", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "The days of our years are seventy..." into verse 12's "So teach us to count our days...", so "knows" and "power" 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 "knows" and "power" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.