Psalms 90:9-10

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh. The length of our days is seventy years — or eighty if we are strong — yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 90

5 songs meet this passage

  • Wanted Dead or Alive · Bon Jovi

    resonates with Psalms 90:9-10

    The fleeting, wearying passage of days the psalmist laments mirrors this traveler's sense of life slipping by unanchored.

  • “Gonna make you some peace someday”

    We Will Rock You · Queen

    resonates with Psalms 90:10-12

    The old man pleading with weary eyes reflects the Psalm's honest reckoning with age and the shortness of life, even as the song stops short of asking God for wisdom in response.

  • “I wish good dogs never got grey and old”

    I Wish Grandpas Never Died · Riley Green

    resonates with Psalms 90:10-12

    The longing for things not to age or fade echoes the Psalmist's meditation on the brevity of life, though the song stops short of asking God to number its days.

  • “Ninety years without slumbering”

    My Grandfather's Clock · Johnny Cash

    resonates with Psalms 90:10-12

    The psalmist's counting of our days to gain a heart of wisdom mirrors the song's meditation on a long life measured by a faithful clock.

  • “Rest in peace, my granny, she got hit by a bazooka”

    Bazooka · Miami XO

    strains against Psalms 90:10-12

    The song treats a grandmother's violent death as a punchline, where Scripture asks us to let mortality teach us wisdom and weight, not laughter.

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