Psa 90:9 | NETfull | STEP | Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

Psalms 90:9

9 Yes, ^{▼▼ Or “for.”} throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; ^{▼▼ Heb “all our days pass by in your anger.”}
the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh. ^{▼▼ Heb “we finish our years like a sigh.” In Ezek 2:10 the word הֶגֶה (hegeh) elsewhere refers to a grumbling or moaning sound. Here a brief sigh or moan is probably in view. If so, the simile pictures one’s lifetime as transient. Another option is that the simile alludes to the weakness that characteristically overtakes a person at the end of one’s lifetime. In this case the phrase could be translated, “we end our lives with a painful moan.”}