The Psalms

Psalm 90

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

 ^90:1Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place

 In all generations.

 ^90:2Before the mountains were brought forth,

 Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,

 Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

 ^90:3Thou turnest man to destruction,

 And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

 ^90:4For a thousand years in thy sight

 Are but as yesterday when it is past,

 And as a watch in the night.

 ^90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:

 In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

 ^90:6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;

 In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

 ^90:7For we are consumed in thine anger,

 And in thy wrath are we troubled.

 ^90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,

 Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

 ^90:9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:

 We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

 ^90:10The days of our years are threescore years and ten,

 Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;

 Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow;

 For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

 ^90:11Who knoweth the power of thine anger,

 And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

 ^90:12So teach us to number our days,

 That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

 ^90:13Return, O Jehovah; how long?

 And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

 ^90:14Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness,

 That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

 ^90:15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,

 And the years wherein we have seen evil.

 ^90:16Let thy work appear unto thy servants,

 And thy glory upon their children.

 ^90:17And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;

 And establish thou the work of our hands upon us;

 Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.