Psalm 90
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 O Lord, thou hast been unto us
from generation,
to generation, a place
of fixed mansion.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
ere earth and world by thee
were form’d: thou are eternally
God to eternity.
3 Thou dost unto destruction
turn miserable men:
and then thou say’st ye sons of men
do ye return again.
4 For why, O Lord, a thousand years
are but within thy sight
as yesterday when it is past:
and as a watch by night.
5 By thee like as it were a flood
they quite away are borne,
they like a sleep, and as the grass
that grows up in the morn.
6 It in the morning flourisheth,
it also up doth grow;
it in the ev’ning is cut down
it withereth also.
7 Because we by thine anger are
consumed speedily:
and by thy sore displeasure we
are troubl’d suddenly.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities
before thee in thy sight:
our secret evils are within
thy countenance’s light.
9 Because in thine exceeding wrath
our days all pass away:
our years we have consumed quite,
ev’n as a tale are they.
10 Threescore and ten years are the days
of our years which remain,
and if through strength they fourscore be,
their strength is grief and pain:
for it’s cut off soon, and we fly
11 away: Who is doth know
thine anger’s strength? according as
thy fear, thy wrath is so.
12 Teach us to count our days: our hearts
so we’ll on wisdom set.
13 Turn Lord, how long? of thy servants
let it repent thee yet?