Psalm 90:3–10

3 You return mankind to the dust,

saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”c

4 For in your sight a thousand years

are like yesterday that passes by,

like a few hours of the night.d

5 You end their lives;B they sleep.e

They are like grass that grows in the morning—

6 in the morning it sprouts and grows;

by evening it withers and dries up.f

7 For we are consumed by your anger;

we are terrified by your wrath.g

8 You have set our iniquities before you,

our secret sins in the light of your presence.h

9 For all our days ebb away under your wrath;

we end our years like a sigh.i

10 Our lives lastC seventy years

or, if we are strong, eighty years.

Even the best of them areD struggle and sorrow;

indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.j