Psalms 90:3 (YLT)

Passage

Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

Nearby Context

Psalms 90:1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou--Thou hast been, To us--in generation and generation,

Psalms 90:2 Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou <FI>art<Fi> God.

Psalms 90:3 Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

Psalms 90:4 For a thousand years in Thine eyes <FI>are<Fi> as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

Psalms 90:5 Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "turnest", "bruised", "sayest", "back", and "sons". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "turnest", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "Before mountains were brought forth And Thou..." into verse 4's "For a thousand years in Thine eyes...", so "thou" and "turnest" 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 "thou" and "turnest" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.