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New Living Translation

Psalms 90:11

Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   Fear of God;   God Continued...;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Moses;   Psalms, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Prayer;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Septuagint;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fear;   Wrath (Anger);  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for February 23;   Every Day Light - Devotion for February 22;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Who knows the power of Your angerAnd Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who regardeth the force of thy wrath? for euen there after as a man feareth thee, so [feeleth he] thy displeasure.
Darby Translation
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
New King James Version
Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
Literal Translation
Who knows the power of Your anger? And as Your fear is, so is Your fury.
Easy-to-Read Version
No one really knows the full power of your anger, but our fear and respect for you is as great as your anger.
World English Bible
Who knows the power of your anger, Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
King James Version (1611)
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? euen according to thy feare, so is thy wrath.
King James Version
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But who regardeth the power of thy wrath, thy fearfull & terrible displeasure?
Amplified Bible
Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?] And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?
American Standard Version
Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
Bible in Basic English
Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?
Update Bible Version
Who knows the power of your anger, And your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
Webster's Bible Translation
Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath.
New English Translation
Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.
Contemporary English Version
No one knows the full power of your furious anger, but it is as great as the fear that we owe to you.
Complete Jewish Bible
Who grasps the power of your anger and wrath to the degree that the fear due you should inspire?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy feare is thine anger.
George Lamsa Translation
Who knows the power of thine anger and the fear of thy wrath?
Hebrew Names Version
Who knows the power of your anger, Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who knoweth the power of Thine anger, and Thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto Thee?
New Life Bible
Who understands the power of Your anger? Your anger is as great as the fear that we should have for You.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who knows the power of thy wrath?
English Revised Version
Who knoweth the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
Berean Standard Bible
Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
New Revised Standard
Who considers the power of your anger? Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who knoweth the strength of thine anger? Even, according to the fear of thee, is thy wrath!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(89-11) Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear
Lexham English Bible
Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with the fear due you?
English Standard Version
Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?
New American Standard Bible
Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?
New Century Version
Who knows the full power of your anger? Your anger is as great as our fear of you should be.
Good News Translation
Who has felt the full power of your anger? Who knows what fear your fury can bring?
Christian Standard Bible®
Who understands the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who knew the power of thin ire; and durste noumbre thin ire for thi drede?
Young's Literal Translation
Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?
Revised Standard Version
Who considers the power of thy anger, and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

Contextual Overview

7 We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury. 8 You spread out our sins before you— our secret sins—and you see them all. 9 We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our years with a groan. 10 Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away. 11 Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 26:18, Leviticus 26:21, Leviticus 26:24, Leviticus 26:28, Deuteronomy 28:59, Deuteronomy 29:20-29, Isaiah 33:14, Nahum 1:6, Luke 12:5, 2 Corinthians 5:11, Revelation 6:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:11 - fearful Exodus 22:24 - my wrath Numbers 25:3 - the anger Deuteronomy 6:15 - lest Deuteronomy 31:17 - my anger 1 Chronicles 21:30 - he was afraid Ezra 8:22 - his power and his wrath Job 9:34 - let not Psalms 76:7 - who Psalms 88:16 - fierce Psalms 90:7 - For we Proverbs 24:22 - who Isaiah 2:10 - for fear Jeremiah 10:10 - the nations Zechariah 14:12 - Their flesh Romans 2:8 - indignation Romans 9:22 - willing Hebrews 10:31 - to fall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who knoweth the power of thine anger?.... Expressed in his judgments on men: as the drowning of the old world, the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the consumption of the Israelites in the wilderness; or in shortening the days of men, and bringing them to the dust of death; or by inflicting punishment on men after death; they are few that take notice of this, and consider it well, or look into the causes of it, the sins of men: such as are in hell experimentally know it; but men on earth, very few closely attend to it, or rarely think of it:

even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath; or who knows thy wrath, so as to fear thee? who considers it so, as that it has such an influence upon him to fear the Lord, and stand in awe of him, and fear to offend him, and seek to please him? or rather the wrath of God is answerable to men's fear of him; and that, in some things and cases, men's fears exceed the things feared; as afflictions viewed beforehand, and death itself: the fears of them are oftentimes greater, and more distressing, than they themselves, when they come; but so it is not with the wrath of God; the greatest fears, and the most dreadful apprehensions of it, do not come up to it; it is full as great as they fear it is, and more so.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? - Who can measure it, or take a correct estimate of it, as it is manifest in cutting down the race of people? If the removal of people by death is to be traced to thine anger - or is, in any proper sense, an expression of thy wrath - who can measure it, or understand it? The cutting down of whole generations of people - of nations - of hundreds of million of human beings - of the great, the powerful, the mighty, as well as the weak and the feeble, is an amazing exhibition of the “power” - of the might - of God; and who is there that can fully understand this? Who can estimate fully the wrath of God, if this is to be regarded as an expression of it? Who can comprehend what this is? Who can tell, after such an exhibition, what may be in reserve, or what further and more fearful displays of wrath there may yet be?

Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath - literally, “And according to thy fear, thy wrath.” The word rendered “fear” would here seem to refer to the “reverence” due to God, or to what there is in his character to inspire awe: to wit, his power, his majesty, his greatness; and the sense seems to be that his wrath or anger as manifested in cutting down the race seems to be commensurate with all in God that is vast, wonderful, incomprehensible. As no one can understand or take in the one, so no one can understand or take in the other. God is great in all things; great in himself; great in his power in cutting down the race; great in the expressions of his displeasure.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 90:11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? — The afflictions of this life are not to be compared to the miseries which await them who live and die without being reconciled to God, and saved from their sins.


 
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