Psalms 90 Man's Weakness and God's Providence

 Psalms 90

Man's Weakness and God's Providence

1 O Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were born, or you formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3 You have destroyed man, and said, "Return, O sons of men!"

4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night.

5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream; they are like grass that grows in the morning,

6 In the morning it grows and flourishes, in the evening it is cut down and withers.

7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath we are in distress.

8 You have set our iniquities before you, our hidden sins in the light of your countenance.

9 For all our days pass away in your wrath; our years are as fleeting as a tale.

10 The length of our days is seventy years, and though some by reason of strength are eighty years, yet the best of them is weariness and sorrow, for it quickly passes away, and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of your anger? Is your wrath according to the fear due you?

12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

13 Turn to us, O Lord; how long? And be appeased to your servants.

14 Satisfy us early in the morning with your lovingkindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad as to the days in which you have afflicted us, and as to the years in which we have seen evil.

16 Let your work be revealed to your servants, and your glory to their children. 

17 And the grace of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands.