Psalms 90:15

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
glad	שַׂ֭מְּחֵנוּ Sam.che.nu	H8055	probably to brighten up · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
days	כִּימ֣וֹת ki.Mot	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + noun, common feminine plural absolute
afflicted	עִנִּיתָ֑נוּ 'i.ni.Ta.nu	H6031	to depress literally or figuratively · verb, piel perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
years	שְׁ֝נ֗וֹת She.Not	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine plural absolute
seen	רָאִ֥ינוּ ra.'I.nu	H7200	to see · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common plural
evil	רָעָֽה ra.'Ah	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalms 126:5-6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Isaiah 40:1-2 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
John 16:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall…
Isaiah 12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst…
Jeremiah 31:12-13 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and…
Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spir…
Isaiah 65:18-19 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:12–end

These are the petitions of this prayer, grounded upon the foregoing meditations and acknowledgments. Is any afflicted? Let him learn thus to pray. Four things they are here directed to pray for: - I. For a sanctified use of the sad dispensation they were now under. Being condemned to have our days shortened, "Lord, teach us to number our days (Psa 90:12); Lord, give us grace duly to consider how few they are, and how little a while we have to live in this world." Note, 1. It is an excellent art rightly to number our days, so as not to be out in our calculation, as he was who counted upon many years to come when, that night, his soul was required of him. We must live under a constant apprehe…

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John Gill on Psalms 90:15

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,.... The days of affliction are times of sorrow; and days of prosperity make glad and joyful; and the psalmist here seems to desire an equal number of the one as of the other; not that an exact precise number of the one with the other is intended; but that there might be a proper proportion of the one to the other; and commonly God does "set the one over against the other": there is a mixture of both in the believer's life, which is like unto a chequer of black and white, in which there is a proper proportion of both colours; and so prosperity and adversity are had in turns, "and work together for good" to them that love the L…

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John Calvin on Psalms 90:14–end

Psalm 90:14-17 14. Satiate us early [574] with thy goodness, and we will be glad and rejoice all our days. 15. Make us joyful according to the days of our affliction; according to the years in which we have seen evil. 16. Let thy work appear towards thy servants, and thy glory upon their children. 17. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and direct the work of our hands upon us; yea, direct thou the work of our hands. 16 Let thy work appear towards thy servants. As God, when he forsakes his Church, puts on as it were a character different from his own, Moses, with much propriety, calls the blessing of protection which had been divinely promised to the children of Abraham God'…

Dictionary and topics

Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Affliction, Prayer Under · For restoration to joy — For restoration to joy
Penitent · PROMISES TO — PROMISES TO

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 90:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:12–end

John Gill on Psalms 90:15

John Calvin on Psalms 90:14–end

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 90:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:12–end

John Gill on Psalms 90:15

John Calvin on Psalms 90:14–end

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 90:13–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 90:15

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 90:15