Psalm 89–91

Psalm 89

¹A prayer of Moses the man of God.

Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

²Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

³Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

⁴For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

⁵Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

⁶In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

⁷For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.

⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:

¹⁰The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

¹¹Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

¹²Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

¹³Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

¹⁴We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

¹⁵We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

¹⁶Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

¹⁷And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

Psalm 90

¹The praise of a canticle for David.

He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.

²He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.

³For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.

⁴He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings thou shalt trust.

⁵His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night.

⁶Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

⁷A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.

⁸But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked.

⁹Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High thy refuge.

¹⁰There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling.

¹¹For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways.

¹²In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

¹³Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

¹⁴Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name.

¹⁵He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

¹⁶I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

Psalm 91

¹A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.

²It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.

³To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:

⁴Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

⁵For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.

⁶O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

⁷The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

⁸When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

⁹But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.

¹⁰For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹¹But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

¹²My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.

¹³The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

¹⁴They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

¹⁵They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

¹⁶That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.