Psalms 90:13 (WEB)

Passage

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Nearby Context

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!

Psalms 90:14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Psalms 90:15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "relent", "yahweh", "long", "compassion", and "servants". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "relent" and "yahweh", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "So teach us to count our days..." into verse 14's "Satisfy us in the morning with your...", so "relent" and "yahweh" 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 "relent" and "yahweh" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.