Psalms 90:9

“For all our days decline in your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.”

Psalms 90:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Psalms 90:9, word by word

our daysיָמֵיyame

time

Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.

Where else “yame” appears
declineפָּנוּpanu

turn

To turn toward something, someone or God.

Where else “panu” appears
in your wrathעֶבְרָתֶevrate

fury

Overflowing rage, fury.

Where else “evrate” appears
we finishכִּלִּינוּkilinu

finish

To bring a work or a matter through to its end.

Where else “kilinu” appears
our yearsשָׁנֵיshane

year

Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.

Where else “shane” appears
a murmurהֶגֶהhege

rumbling, sighing, musing

A murmur, a low sound: of thunder, of a sigh or of one thinking aloud.

Where else “hege” appears

The context

8You have set our iniquities before you, our secrets in the light of your face.

9 · This verse (above)

10The 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.

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