OEBcth - Psalms - 90

90:1  Lord, you have been a home to us one generation after another.

90:2  Before the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

90:3  You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.

90:4  For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.

90:5  Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,

90:6  which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.

90:7  For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.

90:8  Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.

90:9  For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.

90:10  The span of our life is seventy years, or, if we are strong, maybe eighty; yet is their breadth but empty toil, for swiftly they go, and we fly away.

90:11  Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?

90:12  O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.

90:13  Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.

90:14  Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy.

90:15  Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.

90:16  Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to their children.

90:17  Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.