Psalms 90:9

are passed away Lit. turnor declinetowards evening (Jeremiah 6:4). We are "a generation of thy wrath" (Jeremiah 7:29). Our life is drawing to a close under a cloud; there is no sign of -light at evening-tide."

we spend&c. Lit. we consume our years as a sigh: they are past as quickly as a sigh, itself the expression of sorrow and weariness. The meaning of the word is however uncertain. Some explain, as a thought, comparing Theognis, 979, "Swift as a thought gay youth is past and gone": the Targ. gives as a breath: A.V. follows Jerome, "consumpsimus annos nostros quasi sermonem loquens."