Psalm 90:7

Translations

Modern

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Traditional

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Literal

For we are consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified.

Latin

Quia defecimus in ira tua, et in furore tuo turbati sumus.

Original

Hebrew

English

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Notes

Psalms 90:7–10

Sinners cannot escape God’s anger against sin because the Lord sees their sins. Their lives pass quickly and are full of suffering.

Psalms 90:1–17

Although the Lord’s people have lived in him for many generations, their sin creates distance between them and their eternal Lord. The Lord’s anger against human sin can seem to last a lifetime. Even then, it is only a small sign of his full displeasure with sin. This sad situation leads the community to seek the Lord’s light.

The first step is to ask the Lord to restore them because of his compassion and faithful love (Psalm 90:13–14). He alone can make his servants glad. He alone can bless the generations that come after them (Psalm 90:16–17).

Theme notes and profiles

Moses Death Wisdom Psalms

Related verses

Psalm 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Psalm 59:13
Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
Hebrews 3:10–11
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
Hebrews 3:17–4:2
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Exodus 14:24
At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
Romans 2:8–9
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
Deuteronomy 2:14–16
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
Numbers 17:12–13
Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
Psalm 90:11
Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
Psalm 90:9
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Glossary

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Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God The Anger of God: Against: Sin, in Saints The Anger of God: Manifested in Judgments and Afflictions

Psalm 90:7

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