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Psalms 90

¹A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place [our refuge, our sanctuary, our stability] in all generations.

²Before the mountains were born Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.

³You turn man back to dust, And say, "Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!"

⁴For a[1] thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, Or as a watch in the night.

⁵You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone]; In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

⁶In the morning it flourishes and springs up; In the evening it wilts and withers away.

⁷For we have been consumed by Your anger And by Your wrath we have been terrified.

⁸You have placed our wickedness before you, Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.

⁹For all our days pass away in Your wrath; We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

¹⁰The days of our life are[2] seventy years— Or even, if because of strength, eighty years; Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow, For it is soon gone and we fly away.

¹¹Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?] And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?

¹²So teach us to number our days, That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.

¹³Turn, O LORD [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be? Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

¹⁴O satisfy us with Your lovingkindness in the morning [now, before we grow older], That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us, And the years we have suffered evil.

¹⁶Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants And Your [glorious] majesty to their children.

¹⁷And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us; Confirm for us the work of our hands— Yes, confirm the work of our hands.