Psalms 90

Psalms 90:1  
Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

Psalms 90:2  
Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Psalms 90:3  
You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

Psalms 90:4  
For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Psalms 90:5  
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Psalms 90:6  
In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

Psalms 90:7  
For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Psalms 90:8  
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Psalms 90:9  
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Psalms 90:10  
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Psalms 90:11  
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Psalms 90:12  
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalms 90:13  
Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Psalms 90:14  
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Psalms 90:15  
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Psalms 90:16  
Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

Psalms 90:17  
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.


Public Domain