Psalm 90

¹Lord, you have been our refuge *from one generation to another.

²Before the mountains were brought forth, or the land and the earth were born, *from age to age you are God.

³You turn us back to the dust and say, *“Go back, O child of earth.”

⁴For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past *and like a watch in the night.

⁵You sweep us away like a dream; *we fade away suddenly like the grass.

⁶In the morning it is green and flourishes; *in the evening it is dried up and withered.

⁷For we consume away in your displeasure; *we are afraid because of your wrathful indignation.

⁸Our iniquities you have set before you, *and our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

⁹When you are angry, all our days are gone; *we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

¹⁰The span of our life is seventy years, perhaps in strength even eighty; *yet the sum of them is but labor and sorrow, for they pass away quickly and we are gone.

¹¹Who regards the power of your wrath? *who rightly fears your indignation?

¹²So teach us to number our days *that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

¹³Return, O Lord; how long will you tarry? *be gracious to your servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us by your loving-kindness in the morning; *so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

¹⁵Make us glad by the measure of the days that you afflicted us *and the years in which we suffered adversity.

¹⁶Show your servants your works *and your splendor to their children.

¹⁷May the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; *prosper the work of our hands; prosper our handiwork.