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Psalms 90:15 Explained in Context

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Verse 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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Role in This Section

Psalm 90:15: Within “Moses' prayer on mortality and lasting work: Return, satisfy, and establish our work,” the line “Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted…” supplies one distinct parallel claim, image, address, or response.

Read It With

  • Psalms 90:1–17
  • Psalms 90:13–17

Read Psalm 90:15 with 90:13–17 and the whole of Psalm 90. Psalm 90:15 adds the distinct poetic line “Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the…” within “Return, satisfy, and establish our work,” where its parallel neighbors determine emphasis and scope. The communal-wisdom-lament form, parallel lines, voice, and Book IV placement keep the selected line from becoming a contextless slogan.

Why It Needs Context

The line “Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,…” is a premise, image, address, response, or transition inside Psalms 90:13–17; its parallel neighbors and the movement titled “Moses' prayer on mortality and lasting work: Return, satisfy, and establish our work” must supply the claim before teaching or application.

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Read Psalms 90:13–17 — Moses' prayer on mortality and lasting work: Return, satisfy, and establish our work
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How certain is this explanation? probable

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Psalms 90:13–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 90:13–17

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