PSALM 90

God Our Dwelling Place

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.


			
			01  LORD, You have been our
			    dwelling place in all
			    generations
			02  Before the mountains were
			    brought fourth,
			O3  ever You had formed the
			    earth and the world,
			    Even from everlasting to 
			    everlasting, You are God.
			
			03  You turn man to destruction,
			    And say, "Return, O children
			    of men."
			04  For a thousand years in Your
			    sight
			    Are like
			    Are like yesterday when it is
			    past,
			    And like a watch in the night.
			05  You carry them away like a
			    flood;
			    They are like a sleep.
			    In the morning they are like
			    grass which grows up:
			06  In the morning it flourishes and 
			    grows up;
			    In the evening it is cut down
			    and withers.
			07  For we have been consumed by 
			    Your anger,
			    And by Your wrath we are
			    terrified.
			08  You have set our iniquities
			    before You,
			    Our secret sins in the light of
			    You countenance.
			09  For all our days have passed
			    away in Your wrath;
			    We finish our years like a sigh.
			10  The days of our lives are seventy
			    years;
			    And if by reason of strength they
			    are eighty years,
			    Yet their boast is only labor and
			    sorrow;
			    For it is soon cut off, and we
			    fly away.
			11  Who knows the power of You
			    anger?
			    For as the fear of You, so is Your
			    wrath.
			12  So teach us to number our days,
			    That we may gain a heart of
			    wisdom.
			
			13  Return, O LORD!
			    How long?
			    And have compassion on Your
			    servants.
			14  Oh, satisfy us early with You
			    mercy,
			    That we may rejoice and be glad
			    all our days!
			15  Make us glad according to the
			    days in which You have
			    afflicted us,
			    The years in which we have seen 
			    evil.
			16  Let Your work appear to Your
			    servants,
			    And Your glory to their
			    children.
			17  And let the beauty of the LORD
			    our God be upon us,
			    And establish the work of our
			    hands for us;
			    Yes, establish the work of our
			    hands.