Psalm 90:1–17

¹Lord, ^bYou have been our ¹dwelling place in all generations.

^2cBefore the mountains were brought forth,

Or ever You ²had formed the earth and the world,

Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³You turn man to destruction,

And say, ^d“Return, O children of men.”

^4eFor a thousand years in Your sight

Are like yesterday when it is past,

And like a watch in the night.

⁵You carry them away like a flood;

^fThey are like a sleep.

In the morning ^gthey are like grass which grows up:

⁶In the morning it flourishes and grows up;

In the evening it is cut down and withers.

⁷For we have been consumed by Your anger,

And by Your wrath we are terrified.

^8hYou have set our iniquities before You,

Our ⁱsecret sins in the light of Your countenance.

⁹For all our days have passed away in Your wrath;

We finish our years like a sigh.

¹⁰The days of our lives are seventy years;

And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,

Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;

For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knows the power of Your anger?

For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.

^12jSo teach us to number our days,

That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

¹³Return, O Lord!

How long?

And ^khave compassion on Your servants.

¹⁴Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy,

^lThat we may rejoice and be glad all our days!

¹⁵Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us,

The years in which we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let ^mYour work appear to Your servants,

And Your glory to their children.

¹⁷ⁿAnd let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,

And ^oestablish the work of our hands for us;

Yes, establish the work of our hands.