Psalm 90:10 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

¹⁰ Threescore and ten years do sum up our days and years, we see; Or, if, by reason of more strength, in some fourscore they be: Yet doth the strength of such old men but grief and labour prove; For it is soon cut off, and we fly hence, and soon remove.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten (seventy years)–or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years); yet is their pride [in additional years] only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ We live at best to be seventy years old, maybe eighty, if we’re strong. But their duration brings hard work and trouble because they go by so quickly. And then we fly off.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle.

Psalm 90:10 Cross References

Psalm 78:39

For that they were but fading flesh to mind he did recall; A wind that passeth soon away, and not returns at all.