Psalms 90:15

13 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

16 May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.

17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
KJV
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
WEB
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
ASV
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.
DARBY
Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
BLB
Let us be glad according to the days You have afflicted us—the years we have seen evil.
ÅB
Gled oss så mange dager som du har plaget oss, så mange år som vi har sett ulykke!
OTB
Gjør oss glade etter de dager du har plaget oss,
Og de år vi har sett ulykke.
B1930
Gled oss så mange dager som du har plaget oss, så mange år som vi har sett ulykke!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 30:5

    For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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  • Psalms 126:5–6

    Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

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  • John 16:20

    Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

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  • Isaiah 40:1–2

    “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

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  • Isaiah 12:1

    In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

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  • Jeremiah 31:12–13

    They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

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  • Isaiah 65:18–19

    But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

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  • Isaiah 61:3

    to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

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