Holy Scripture

Psalms 89:10

A church father on this verse
“Lastly, what hast Thou done in the sea itself, to pacify its rage, and to weaken it? "Thou hast humbled the proud as one that is wounded." There is a certain proud serpent in the sea, of which another passage of Scripture speaks, "I will command the serpent, and he shall bite him;" and again, "There is that Leviathan,…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 89

Source: Septuagint

Original

10As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; And if men should be in strength, eighty years: And the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; For weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

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8Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: Our age is in the light of thy countenance.

9For all our days are gone, And we have passed away in thy wrath: Our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

— Psalms 89:10 —

11Who knows the power of thy wrath?

12And who knows how to number his days Because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, And those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

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