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Psalm 90:9

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
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A sigh is the measure of years here, as the prayer faces the weight of God's wrath and the frailty of human life.

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Where else Scripture says this

7 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 78:33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.Both describe days and years under God's judgment, with Psalm 78 naming terror and Psalm 90 describing years ending as a sigh.
1 John 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.Both speak of what passes away; John contrasts the passing world with the person who does God's will and remains forever.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.Both address God about human days, comparing life's brevity to something fleeting: a sigh in the psalm, a shadow in Chronicles.
Psalm 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.Both address God about a brief lifetime, using a sigh or a breath to express how little human years amount to.
Deuteronomy 2:14The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were …Both describe years passing under God's judgment, with Deuteronomy naming the generation of men of war who died during the wilderness years.
Psalm 90:4For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.Both speak to God about passing years, with a thousand years compared to yesterday and a human lifetime to a sigh.
Psalm 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.Both name God's wrath as the setting of human frailty, linking consumed lives with days that have passed away.
Where this verse fits

Aging. death and what comes after. guilt and confession.

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Encouragement

You do not have to soften this prayer's hard words. It addresses God from within the weight of his wrath, where a lifetime ends as a sigh.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).