Thematic Bible

Psalm 90:1

([Prayer of Moses]) O Jehovah, you have been our refuge throughout every generation.

Psalm 90:2

Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and its inhabitants, you are God from everlasting to everlasting.

Psalm 90:3

You turn men back into dust and say: Return, O sons of men!

Psalm 90:4

In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.

Psalm 90:5

You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass.

Psalm 90:6

In the morning they blossom and sprout. In the evening they fade and wither away.

Psalm 90:7

Your anger consumes us. We are troubled by your rage.

Psalm 90:8

You set our sins in front of you. You put our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Psalm 90:9

Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Psalm 90:11

Who understands the power of your anger, and your fury according to the reverence that is due you?

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number each of our days so that we may present to you a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:13

Return, O Jehovah! How long? Change your plans about us, your servants.

Psalm 90:14

Satisfy us every morning with your loving kindness so that we may sing for joy and rejoice all our days.

Psalm 90:15

Make us rejoice for as many days as you have made us suffer, for as many years as we have experienced evil.

Psalm 90:16

Let your servants see what you can do. Let our children see your majesty.

Psalm 90:17

Let the kindness of Jehovah our God be with us. Confirm for us the work of our hands. Yes, confirm the work of our hands.