Psalms 90:9 (WEB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Psalms 90:7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

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 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?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "days", "passed", "away", "wrath", "bring", "years", and "sigh". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "days" and "passed", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "You have set our iniquities before you..." into verse 10's "The days of our years are seventy...", so "days" and "passed" 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 "passed" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.