What Does Psalm 90:14 Mean?
Fill us in the morning with your faithful love, and let us ring out and rejoice in all our days.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.THE KEY
The prayer asks to be filled by faithful love at daybreak until joy becomes the sound of all our days.
THE MEANING
The reader asks to begin the day filled by God’s faithful love, enough to meet the whole day. From that fullness, rejoicing rises as a song, and gladness stretches across every day of life.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that gladness must wait until life goes right: this prayer locates its source in receiving faithful love, day after day.
THE ROOT
שַׂבְּעֵנוּ
sabbeʿenu
GROWS FROM
שבע
Be full, be sated.
“Fill” in this verse is sabbeʿenu. The request is for fullness, not merely a brief easing of need. The verse pictures faithful love as what fills the reader so that joy can extend through all the days.
ALSO GROWS
sovaʿ: Satiety, fullness, abundance.
שֹׂבַע
This noun makes the prayer’s image concrete: the reader is asking to be filled to sufficiency.
saveaʿ: Full, satisfied, sated.
שָׂבֵעַ
The same root describes a person whose need has been met, showing the movement from asking to being filled.
חַסְדֶּךָ
chasdecha
GROWS FROM
חסד
Faithful love; steadfast loyalty.
The fullness sought here comes from faithful love: a steady, relational care, not a passing feeling. That love is the ground from which gladness can rise through every day.
ALSO GROWS
chasid: A faithful or devoted one.
חָסִיד
This related word describes a person marked by faithful devotion, showing how the root’s love can shape a life.
chasidim: Faithful or devoted ones.
חֲסִידִים
The plural carries that quality into a people: faithful love is a bond of belonging, not just an inward comfort.
וּנְרַנְּנָה
u-nerannenah
GROWS FROM
רנן
Cry out, sing aloud, shout for joy.
“ring out” in this verse is u-nerannenah. The rejoicing here has a voice: it is song or joyful shouting, not only a private feeling. The prayer moves from being filled by faithful love to expressing that fullness aloud.
ALSO GROWS
rinnah: A joyful cry or song.
רִנָּה
This branch makes the verse’s joy audible: the fullness received finds expression as song.
renanah: A shout or song of joy.
רְנָנָה
The same root names joy as an outward cry, linking the morning’s filling to a voice that carries through the day.
THE PATTERN
The renewal of God’s faithful love fills life and sustains joy across time.
They are new every morning; great is your steadiness.Who fills your mouth with goodness, and your youth is made new like the eagle's.Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice.THE THREAD
Who fills your mouth with goodness, and your youth is made new like the eagle's.The Hebrew verb translated “satisfieth” comes from the same root, שבע, as “satisfy us” in this verse. Psalm 103 links that fullness with renewal; Psalm 90 asks for the same filling at morning, so gladness can continue through every day.
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