The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 90 -

The Lord is our dwelling place

Lord, you have always been like a home for us.

Before you created the mountains, before you formed the earth and everything that is in it, you were eternally God, and you will be God forever.

When people die, you cause their corpses to become soil again; you change their corpses to become dirt like that from which the first man was created.

When you consider time, a thousand years are as short as one day that passes; you consider that they are as short as a few hours in the night.

You cause people to die suddenly; they live only a short time as a dream lasts only a short time. They are like grass that grows up.

In the morning the grass sprouts and grows well, but in the evening it dries up and completely withers.

Similarly, because of the sins that we commit, you become angry with us; you terrify us and then you destroy us.

It is as though you place our sins in front of you; you spread out even our secret sins where you can see them.

Because you are angry with us, you cause our lives to end; the years that we live pass as quickly as a sigh does.

People live for only seventy years; if they are strong, some of them live for eighty years. But even during good years we have much pain and troubles; our lives soon end, and we die.

No one has really experienced the powerful things you can do to them when you are angry with them, and people are not afraid that you will punish them because of your being angry with them.

So teach us to realize that we live for only a short time in order that we may use our time wisely.

Yahweh, how long will you be angry with us? Pity us who serve you.

Each morning, show us that it is enough for us if you love us faithfully as you have promised you would do. Show us this so that we may shout joyfully and be happy all during the years that we live.

Cause us to be now as happy for as many years as you afflicted us and we experienced troubles.

Enable us to see the great things that you do, and enable our descendants to see your glorious power also.

Lord, our God, give us your blessings and enable us to be successful; yes, cause us to be successful in everything that we do!

The Lord is our dwelling place

Lord,(a) you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

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

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

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

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Relent, LORD!(b) How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Footnotes

(a)90:1 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

(b)90:13 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.