Psalms 90

₁O Lord, you have always been our home.

₂Before you created the hills

or brought the world into being,

you were eternally God,

and will be God for ever.

₃You tell us to return to what we were;

you change us back to dust.

₄A thousand years to you are like one day;

they are like yesterday, already gone,

like a short hour in the night.

₅You carry us away like a flood;

we last no longer than a dream.

We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,

₆that grow and burst into bloom,

then dry up and die in the evening.

₇We are destroyed by your anger;

we are terrified by your fury.

₈You place our sins before you,

our secret sins where you can see them.

₉Our life is cut short by your anger;

it fades away like a whisper.

₁₀Seventy years is all we have —

eighty years, if we are strong;

yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow;

life is soon over, and we are gone.

₁₁Who has felt the full power of your anger?

Who knows what fear your fury can bring?

₁₂Teach us how short our life is,

so that we may become wise.

₁₃How much longer will your anger last?

Have pity, O LORD, on your servants!

₁₄Fill us each morning with your constant love,

so that we may sing and be glad all our life.

₁₅Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us

during all our years of misery.

₁₆Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds;

let our descendants see your glorious might.

₁₇LORD our God, may your blessings be with us.

Give us success in all we do!