Psalm 90

Of God and Man^p

90 O Lord, you have always been our home.

²Before you created the hills

or brought the world into being,

you were eternally God,

and will be God for ever.

³You tell us to return to what we were;

you change us back to dust.

^4*A thousand years to you are like one day;

they are like yesterday, already gone,

like a short hour in the night.

⁵You carry us away like a flood;

we last no longer than a dream.

We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,

⁶that grow and burst into bloom,

then dry up and die in the evening.

⁷We are destroyed by your anger;

we are terrified by your fury.

⁸You place our sins before you,

our secret sins where you can see them.

⁹Our life is cut short by your anger;

it fades away like a whisper.

¹⁰Seventy years is all we have—

eighty years, if we are strong;

yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow;

life is soon over, and we are gone.

¹¹Who has felt the full power of your anger?

Who knows what fear your fury can bring?

¹²Teach us how short our life is,

so that we may become wise.

¹³How much longer will your anger last?

Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!

¹⁴Fill us each morning with your constant love,

so that we may sing and be glad all our life.

¹⁵Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us

during all our years of misery.

¹⁶Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds;

let our descendants see your glorious might.

¹⁷Lord our God, may your blessings be with us.

Give us success in all we do!