KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 90:4–9
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Psalms 90:4
4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
4*‖For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night.
- Or, when he hath passed them.
- 2.Pet.3.8.
Psalms 90:5
5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
5‖Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp.
- Or, is changed.
Psalms 90:6
6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth vp: in the euening it is cut downe, and withereth.
Psalms 90:7
7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
7For we are consumed by thine anger: and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms 90:8
8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee: our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 90:9
9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
9†‖For all our dayes are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our yeeres as a tale that is told.
- Hebr. turned away.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 90:4
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The act or power of seeing; something seen; a view, appearance, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The preceding day, or figuratively the former time immediately past.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Gone by, ended, or beyond a stated place, time, or limit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To stay awake, observe, guard, or keep vigil; also a guard duty or division of the night.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 90:5
To carry: to bear, convey, support, lead, or transport from one place to another.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · KJV usage (PCE)
To rest in natural sleep; by figure, to be inactive or dead and at rest.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Low green herbage growing from the ground; by extension, plants used for pasture.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Psalms 90:6
To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument; figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Withers; dries up, fades, loses strength, or wastes away.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 90:7
Wasted; burnt up; destroyed; dissipated; squandered; expended.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Strong displeasure or indignation; as a verb, to provoke to such displeasure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Intense anger or indignation; also judgment or punishment proceeding from such anger.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Disturbed, distressed, afflicted, agitated, or perplexed; the past form of trouble.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 90:8
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
iniquities
Wickedness, unrighteousness, injustice, or a particular sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Acts of transgression against God; offences; or, as a verb, commits sin, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
countenance
The favorable or rebuking presence and regard shown by one's face; in these passages, divine or royal favor, attention, or displeasure.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 90:9
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Enacted; having received all the formalities necessary to constitute a law.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Intense anger or indignation; also judgment or punishment proceeding from such anger.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To pass time, days, or years in a stated manner.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A number or count; an account or report, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To tell: to say, relate, inform, count, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 4
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Open the full verse study8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Open the full verse study43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
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Open the full verse study38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
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Open the full verse study25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
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Open the full verse study24And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
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Open the full verse study19¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
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Open the full verse study24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
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Open the full verse study16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
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Open the full verse study15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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Open the full verse study20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
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Open the full verse study20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
8It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
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Open the full verse study7Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
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Open the full verse study10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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Open the full verse study8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
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Open the full verse study26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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Open the full verse study7Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
8Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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Open the full verse study7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
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Open the full verse study11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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Open the full verse study30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
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Open the full verse study14And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.
15For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
16¶ So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
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Open the full verse study24And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
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Open the full verse study10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
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Open the full verse study12And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
13Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
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Open the full verse study13Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
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Open the full verse study11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
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Open the full verse study8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
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Open the full verse study9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
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Open the full verse study14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
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Open the full verse study12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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Open the full verse study24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study12Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
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Open the full verse study20For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
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Open the full verse study13And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
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Open the full verse study11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
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Open the full verse study12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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Open the full verse study5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
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Open the full verse study12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
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Open the full verse study21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
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Open the full verse study1IN the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
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Open the full verse study21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
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Open the full verse study21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
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Open the full verse study16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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Open the full verse study16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Open the full verse study4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
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