For all our days are past in thine anger: we have [a]spent our years as a thought.

10 The time of our life is threescore years and ten, and if they be of strength, [b]fourscore years: yet their strength is but labor and sorrow: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.

11 [c]Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy fear is thine anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:9 Our days are not only short, but miserable, forasmuch as our sins daily provoke thy wrath.
  2. Psalm 90:10 Meaning, according to the common state of life.
  3. Psalm 90:11 If man’s life for the brevity be miserable, much more if thy wrath lie upon it, as they which fear thee, only know.

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