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Psalm 90

Psa. 90:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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σThe days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of our years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
are threescore
shib`iym. (Hebrew #7657)
seventy
KJV usage: seventy, threescore and ten (+ -teen).
Pronounce: shib-eem'
Origin: multiple of 7651
years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
and ten
shib`iym. (Hebrew #7657)
seventy
KJV usage: seventy, threescore and ten (+ -teen).
Pronounce: shib-eem'
Origin: multiple of 7651
; and if by reason of strength
gbuwrah (Hebrew #1369)
force (literally or figuratively); by implication, valor, victory
KJV usage: force, mastery, might, mighty (act, power), power, strength.
Pronounce: gheb-oo-raw'
Origin: feminine passive participle from the same as 1368
they be fourscore
shmoniym (Hebrew #8084)
mult. from 8083; eighty, also eightieth
KJV usage: eighty(-ieth), fourscore.
Pronounce: shem-o-neem'
Origin: or shmowniym {shem-o-neem'}
years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
, yet is their strength
rohab (Hebrew #7296)
pride
KJV usage: strength.
Pronounce: ro'-hab
Origin: from 7292
labor
`amal (Hebrew #5999)
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Pronounce: aw-mawl'
Origin: from 5998
and sorrow
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
; fore it is soon
chiysh (Hebrew #2440)
properly, a hurry; hence (adverb) quickly
KJV usage: soon.
Pronounce: kheesh
Origin: from 2439
cut off
guwz (Hebrew #1468)
properly, to shear off; but used only in the (figuratively) sense of passing rapidly
KJV usage: bring, cut off.
Pronounce: gooz
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1494)
, and we fly away
`uwph (Hebrew #5774)
to cover (with wings or obscurity); hence (as denominative from 5775) to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning)
KJV usage: brandish, be (wax) faint, flee away, fly (away), X set, shine forth, weary.
Pronounce: oof
Origin: a primitive root
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as for the days of our years, in them are seventy years.
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James 4:14• 14whereas ye know not what [will be] the morrow. Of what sort [is] your life? Why, it is a vapour that appeareth for a little and then disappeareth, (James 4:14)

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Ministry on This Verse

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The days, etc.
Heb. As for the days of our years, in themare seventy years.
Gen. 47:9• 9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. (Gen. 47:9)
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Deut. 34:7• 7{i}And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.{/i} (Deut. 34:7)
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2 Sam. 19:35• 35{i}I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?{/i} (2 Sam. 19:35)
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1 Kings 1:1• 1{i}And king David was old and advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he obtained no warmth.{/i} (1 Kings 1:1)
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Eccl. 12:2‑7• 2Before the sun, and the light, and the moon,{HR}And the stars, be darkened,{HR}And the clouds return after the rain:
 3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble,{HR}And the strong men shall bow themselves,{HR}And the grinders cease because they are few,{HR}And those that look out of the windows be darkened,
 4And the doors shall be shut in the street;{HR}When the sound of the grinding is low,{HR}And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird,{HR}And all the daughters of song shall be brought low;
 5Yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high,{HR}And terrors [shall be] in the way;{HR}And the almond tree shall blossom,{HR}And the grasshopper shall be a burden,{HR}And desire shall fail;{HR}Because man goeth to his long home,{HR}And the mourners go about the streets:
 6Before the silver cord be loosed,{HR}Or the golden bowl be broken,{HR}Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain,{HR}Or the wheel broken at the cistern;
 7And the dust return to the earth as it was,{HR}And the spirit return unto God who gave it. (Eccl. 12:2‑7)
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Psa. 78:39• 39And he remembered that they [were] flesh,{HR}A wind passing and not coming again. (Psa. 78:39)
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Job 14:10• 10But man dieth, and is prostrate,{HR}And man expireth, and where is he? (Job 14:10)
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Job 14•  (Job 14)
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Job 24:24• 24High they are a little while, and are not,{HR}And they sink; like all they are shut up,{HR}And are cut off, like the topping ears of corn. (Job 24:24)
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Isa. 38:12• 12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled off like a weaver my life; from the thrum he cutteth me off; from day to night wilt thou make an end of me. (Isa. 38:12)
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Luke 12:20• 20But God said unto him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? (Luke 12:20)
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James 4:14• 14whereas ye know not what [will be] the morrow. Of what sort [is] your life? Why, it is a vapour that appeareth for a little and then disappeareth, (James 4:14)
• It may be that by reason of strength our years are lengthened out beyond the allotted span of threescore years and ten, but even so, the strength that we are proud of, and the years that we boast in, will only bring labor and vanity. (“Psalm 90” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanityg, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

JND Translation Notes

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These words are rendered "mischief and iniquity," when presented actively. see Job 4.8; Ps. 55.10.

W. Kelly Translation

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The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away.