Psalm 90:3 Parallel Translations
NASB: You turn man back into dust And say, "Return, O children of men." (NASB ©1995)
GWT: You turn mortals back into dust and say, "Return, descendants of Adam."(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
ASV: Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
BBE: You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.
DBY: Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
ERV: Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
JPS: Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'
WBS: Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
WEB: You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
YLT: Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
Psalm 90:3 Cross References
XREF:Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

Job 34:14 "If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,

Job 34:15 All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust.

Psalm 104:29 You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit, they expire And return to their dust.
(NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 90:3 Thou {d} turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
(d) Moses by lamenting the frailty and shortness of man's life moves God to pity.
WES: 90:3 Turnedst - But as for man, his case is far otherwise, though he was made by thee happy. and immortal, yet for his sin thou didst make him mortal and miserable. Saidst - Didst pronounce that sad sentence, return, O men, to the dust out of which ye were taken, Gen 3:19.
MHC: 90:1-6 It is supposed that this psalm refers to the sentence passed on Israel in the wilderness, Nu 14. The favour and protection of God are the only sure rest and comfort of the soul in this evil world. Christ Jesus is the refuge and dwelling-place to which we may repair. We are dying creatures, all our comforts in the world are dying comforts, but God is an ever-living God, and believers find him so. When God, by sickness, or other afflictions, turns men to destruction, he thereby calls men to return unto him to repent of their sins, and live a new life. A thousand years are nothing to God's eternity: between a minute and a million of years there is some proportion; between time and eternity there is none. All the events of a thousand years, whether past or to come, are more present to the Eternal Mind, than what was done in the last hour is to us. And in the resurrection, the body and soul shall both return and be united again. Time passes unobserved by us, as with men asleep; and when it is past, it is as nothing. It is a short and quickly-passing life, as the waters of a flood. Man does but flourish as the grass, which, when the winter of old age comes, will wither; but he may be mown down by disease or disaster.
CONC:Bruised Contrition Destruction Dust Makest Mortal O Return Sayest Saying Sons Turn Turnest
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