90Psalms 90

1Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.Select Psalms 90:1

2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.Select Psalms 90:2

3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.Select Psalms 90:3

4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.Select Psalms 90:4

5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.Select Psalms 90:5

6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.Select Psalms 90:6

7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.Select Psalms 90:7

8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.Select Psalms 90:8

9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.Select Psalms 90:9

10The 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.Select Psalms 90:10

11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.Select Psalms 90:11

12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.Select Psalms 90:12

13Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.Select Psalms 90:13

14O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.Select Psalms 90:14

15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.Select Psalms 90:15

16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.Select Psalms 90:16

17And 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.Select Psalms 90:17