Study it in the app“The days of our years —in them seventy years, and if by strength eighty years; and their pride is suffering and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.”
The psalmist asks God to teach us to number our daysDeath and Eternal Life
The daysיְמֵיof our yearsשְׁנוֹתֵינוּ—in themבָהֶםseventyשִׁבְעִיםyears,שָׁנָהand ifוְאִםby strengthבִּגְבוּרֹתeightyשְׁמוֹנִיםyears;שָׁנָהand their prideוְרָהְבָּםis sufferingעָמָלand sorrow,וָאָוֶןforכִּיit passesגָזquickly,חִישׁand we fly away.וַנָּעֻפָה
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shenote” appearsseventy
Seventy.
Where else “shivim” appearsstrength
Strength of body or spirit to face something.
Where else “gevurot” appearseighty
Eighty.
Where else “shemonim” appearspride
Pride; what someone is proud of. It appears only once.
Where else “rahba” appearssuffering
Pain one goes through, or harm done to others.
Where else “amal” appearsdistress
The evil one suffers, distress.
Where else “aven” appearspass quickly
To go by fast and vanish.
Where else “gaz” appearsquickly
Quickly, in haste. It appears only once as an adverb.
Where else “chish” appearsfly
To move through the air with wings, like birds and seraphim.
Where else “naufa” appears“Their pride”: the best of those years, what one could boast of.
9For all our days decline in your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.
10 · This verse (above)
11Who knows the strength of your anger, and, according to the fear of you, your wrath?
