Psalms - Chapter 90 | Good News Translation

  • 1. O Lord, you have always been our home.
  • 2. Before you created the hills or brought the world into being, you were eternally God, and will be God forever.
  • 3. You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.
  • 4. A thousand years to you are like one day; they are like yesterday, already gone, like a short hour in the night.
  • 5. You carry us away like a flood; we last no longer than a dream. We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,
  • 6. that grow and burst into bloom, then dry up and die in the evening.
  • 7. We are destroyed by your anger; we are terrified by your fury.
  • 8. You place our sins before you, our secret sins where you can see them.
  • 9. Our life is cut short by your anger; it fades away like a whisper.
  • 10. Seventy 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.
  • 11. Who has felt the full power of your anger? Who knows what fear your fury can bring?
  • 12. Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.
  • 13. How much longer will your anger last? Have pity, O LORD, on your servants!
  • 14. Fill us each morning with your constant love, so that we may sing and be glad all our life.
  • 15. Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us during all our years of misery.
  • 16. Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds; let our descendants see your glorious might.
  • 17. Lord our God, may your blessings be with us. Give us success in all we do!
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