“For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.”
The days are consumed: "For all our days pass away under your wrath; our years come to an end like a sigh." The entire lifespan is lived under divine judgment. The comparison of years ending to a sigh suggests something quickly spoken and finished.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:9
1. This Psalm is entitled, “The prayer of Moses the man of God,” through whom, His man, God gave the law to His people, through whom He freed them from the house of slavery, and led them forty years through the wilderness. Moses was therefore the Minister of the Old, and the Prophet of the New Testament. For “all these things,” says the Apostle, “happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the world come.” 1 Corinthians…
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