Psalm 90

¹ LORD, thou hast been our refuge * from one generation to another.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made * thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.

³ Thou turnest man to destruction * again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men.

⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday * seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

⁵ As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep * and fade away suddenly like the grass.

⁶ In the morning it is green, and groweth up * but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

⁷ For we consume away in thy displeasure * and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

⁸ Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee * and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹ For when thou art angry all our days are gone * we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

¹⁰ The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years * yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

¹¹ But who regardeth the power of thy wrath * for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

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

¹³ Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last * and be gracious unto thy servants.

¹⁴ O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon * so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

¹⁵ Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us * and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

¹⁶ Shew thy servants thy work * and their children thy glory.

¹⁷ And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us * prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handywork.