For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Parallel translations
- KJV For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
- BSB For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- NKJV For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh.
- NASB For all our days have dwindled away in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh.
- NLT We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our years with a groan.
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Cross-references · 3
- Ps 78:33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
- Ps 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
- Ps 90:4For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
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