Bible Strands
Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses God, framing the verse as a communal confession of human fragility immediately following a meditation on life’s brevity.
The words — כָלִ֥ינוּ (kha.Li.nu) means "we come to an end," and נִבְהָֽלְנוּ (niv.Hal.nu) means "we are terrified," stating the literal condition of the people under divine anger.
The thread — The pattern of being consumed or perishing before God appears in Psalms 39:11, where discipline consumes what a person holds dear, and in Numbers 17:12, where the people declare they are all perishing.
Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that human existence is terminated by divine judgment, requiring readers to confront their own mortality and the reality of God’s wrath without evasion.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Cross-references
- Psalms 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Exodus 14:24 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- Numbers 17:12 Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
- Deuteronomy 2:14 The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
- Psalms 59:13 Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
- Psalms 90:11 Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
- Romans 2:8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- Hebrews 3:10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
- Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Psalms 90:9 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.