| Chapter
90 |
| 1 | Lord,
thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. |
| 2 | Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God. |
| 3 |
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of
men. |
| 4 | For a thousand
years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the
night. |
| 5 | Thou carriest
them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like
grass which groweth up. |
| 6 |
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down,
and withereth. |
| 7 | For we
are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. |
| 8 | Thou hast set our iniquities before
thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
| 9 | For all our days are passed away in thy
wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. |
|
10 | The days of our years are threescore years and
ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
| 11 | Who knoweth the power of thine
anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. |
|
12 | So teach us to number our days, that we may apply
our hearts unto wisdom. |
| 13 |
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy
servants. |
| 14 | O satisfy
us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
| 15 | Make us glad according to the
days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen
evil. |
| 16 | Let thy work
appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. |
| 17 | And let the beauty of the LORD our God
be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of
our hands establish thou it. |
