Psalms 90:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְמֵֽי־שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְאִ֤ם בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת ׀ שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭רָהְבָּם עָמָ֣ל וָאָ֑וֶן כִּי־גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃

Transliteration

The yĕmê-šĕnôṯênû in them šiḇʿîm šānâ, and if by giḇûrōṯ šĕmônîm šānâ, yet their rohbām is ʿāmāl and ʾāwen; for it gāz ḥîš and we nāʿup̄â.

Grammar Details

*yĕmê-šĕnôṯênû*: masculine plural construct + feminine plural + 1st plural suffix - days of our years
*bāhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - in them
*šiḇʿîm*: cardinal number - seventy
*šānâ*: feminine singular - year
*wĕʾim*: conjunction + conditional particle - and if
*biḡḇûrōṯ*: preposition + feminine plural - by strength/might
*šĕmônîm*: cardinal number - eighty
*wĕrohbām*: conjunction + masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their pride/strength
*ʿāmāl*: masculine singular - trouble/labor
*wāʾāwen*: conjunction + masculine singular - and iniquity/sorrow
*kî-gāz*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - for it is cut off
*ḥîš*: adverb - quickly/speedily
*wannāʿup̄â*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 1st plural - and we fly away

Word Meanings

*yĕmê-šĕnôṯênû*: days of our years/span of our life
*giḇûrōṯ*: strength/might/power
*rohbām*: their pride/their strength/their boast
*ʿāmāl*: trouble/labor/toil/misery
*ʾāwen*: iniquity/sorrow/wickedness/trouble
*gāz*: is cut off/passes quickly/is over
*ḥîš*: quickly/speedily/soon
*nāʿup̄â*: we fly away/we depart/we vanish

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Ps 78:39 : 39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
1 Kgs 1:1 : 1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Job 14:10 : 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. {G1063} What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Job 24:24 : 24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto 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 unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Eccl 12:2-7 : 2 before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; 3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened, 4 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; 5 yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: 6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Isa 38:12 : 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
Job 20:8 : 8 He 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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