Psalm 90:10
Strong's Lexicon
The length of our days
יְמֵֽי־ (yə·mê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ (šə·nō·w·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8141: 1) year 1a) as division of time 1b) as measure of time 1c) as indication of age 1d) a lifetime (of years of life)

is seventy
שִׁבְעִ֪ים (šiḇ·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7657: 1) seventy

years—
שָׁנָ֡ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8141: 1) year 1a) as division of time 1b) as measure of time 1c) as indication of age 1d) a lifetime (of years of life)

or eighty
שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים (šə·mō·w·nîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8084: 1) eighty, fourscore 1a) eighty (as cardinal number) 1b) eightieth (as ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers

if we are strong
וְאִ֤ם (wə·’im)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: 1) if 1a) conditional clauses 1a1) of possible situations 1a2) of impossible situations 1b) oath contexts 1b1) no, not 1c) if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or 1d) when, whenever 1e) since 1f) interrogative particle 1g) but rather

בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת ׀ (biḡ·ḇū·rōṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1369: 1) strength, might 1a) strength 1b) might, valour, bravery 1c) might, mighty deeds (of God)

yet their pride
וְ֭רָהְבָּם (wə·rā·hə·bām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7296: 1) arrogance, pride, object of pride

is but labor
עָמָ֣ל (‘ā·māl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5999: 1) toil, trouble, labour 1a) trouble 1b) trouble, mischief 1c) toil, labour

and sorrow,
וָאָ֑וֶן (wā·’ā·wen)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 205: 1) trouble, wickedness, sorrow 1a) trouble, sorrow 1b) idolatry 1c) trouble of iniquity, wickedness

for
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: 1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since 1a) that 1a1) yea, indeed 1b) when (of time) 1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force) 1c) because, since (causal connection) 1d) but (after negative) 1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if 1f) but rather, but 1g) except that 1h) only, nevertheless 1i) surely 1j) that is 1k) but if 1l) for though 1m) forasmuch as, for therefore

they quickly
חִ֝֗ישׁ (ḥîš)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 2440: 1) quickly

pass,
גָ֥ז (ḡāz)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1468: 1) to pass over, pass away 1a) (Qal) to pass away (of life) 2) (TWOT) to bring, cut off

and we fly away.
וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃ (wan·nā·‘u·p̄āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5774: v 1) to fly, fly about, fly away 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to fly, hover 1a2) to fly away 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to fly, light upon 1c) (Polel) 1c1) to fly about or to and fro 1c2) to cause to fly to and fro, brandish 1d) (Hithpolel) to fly away 2) (Qal) to cover, be dark n f 3) gloom

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Young's Literal Translation
Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Our lives last seventy years or, if we are strong , eighty years. Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow; indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

New American Standard Bible
As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is [but] labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.

King James Bible
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.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

New Living Translation
Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.

English Standard Version
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

New American Standard Bible
As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Our lives last seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years. Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow; indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

International Standard Version
We live for 70 years, or 80 years if we're healthy, yet even in the prime years there are troubles and sorrow. They pass by quickly and we fly away.

NET Bible
The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

American Standard Version
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.

English Revised Version
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but labour and sorrow; for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Young's Literal Translation
Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
















Cross References
2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? 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?

2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Psalm 78:39
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Ecclesiastes 12:2
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

Psalm 90:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

Psalm 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Psalm 90:11
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
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