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they are like a dream,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like grass that is renewed in the morning;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the evening it fades and withers.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>For we are consumed by your anger;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">by your wrath we are overwhelmed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>You have set our iniquities before you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">our secret sins in the light of your countenance.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>For all our days pass away under your wrath;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">our years come to an end<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17458c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> like a sigh.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The days of our life are seventy years,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;</span></span><br /><span class="text">even then their span<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17459d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> is only toil and trouble;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they are soon gone, and we fly away.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Who considers the power of your anger?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>So teach us to count our days</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that we may gain a wise heart.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Turn, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>! How long?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Have compassion on your servants!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and as many years as we have seen evil.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Let your work be manifest to your servants,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and your glorious power to their children.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and prosper for us the work of our hands—</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O prosper the work of our hands!</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 90:1">Psalm 90:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Another reading is <i>our refuge</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 90:3">Psalm 90:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>humankind</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 90:9">Psalm 90:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>we bring our years to an end</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 90:10">Psalm 90:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk Syr Jerome Tg: Heb <i>pride</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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