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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 90 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/90.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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91">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h2 class="ms">BOOK FOUR</h2><h3 class="mr">(Psalms 90–106)</h3><h3 class="s">Of God and Human Beings<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.90.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </h3><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.1" class="v19_90_1">1</span>O Lord, you have always been our home.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.2" class="v19_90_2">2</span>Before you created the hills</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_2">or brought the world into being,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_2">you were eternally God,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_2">and will be God forever.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.3" class="v19_90_3">3</span>You tell us to return to what we were;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_3">you change us back to dust.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.4" class="v19_90_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.90.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> A thousand years to you are like one day;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_4">they are like yesterday, already gone,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_4">like a short hour in the night.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.5" class="v19_90_5">5</span>You carry us away like a flood;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_5">we last no longer than a dream.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_5">We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.6" class="v19_90_6">6</span>that grow and burst into bloom,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_6">then dry up and die in the evening.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.7" class="v19_90_7">7</span>We are destroyed by your anger;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_7">we are terrified by your fury.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.8" class="v19_90_8">8</span>You place our sins before you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_8">our secret sins where you can see them.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.9" class="v19_90_9">9</span>Our life is cut short by your anger;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_9">it fades away like a whisper.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.10" class="v19_90_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.90.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Seventy years is all we have—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_10">eighty years, if we are strong;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_10">yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_10">life is soon over, and we are gone.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.11" class="v19_90_11">11</span>Who has felt the full power of your anger?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_11">Who knows what fear your fury can bring?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.12" class="v19_90_12">12</span>Teach us how short our life is,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_12">so that we may become wise.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.13" class="v19_90_13">13</span>How much longer will your anger last?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_13">Have pity, O <span class="nd">Lord</span>, on your servants!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.14" class="v19_90_14">14</span>Fill us each morning with your constant love,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_14">so that we may sing and be glad all our life.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.15" class="v19_90_15">15</span>Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_15">during all our years of misery.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.16" class="v19_90_16">16</span>Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_16">let our descendants see your glorious might.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_90_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.90.17" class="v19_90_17">17</span>Lord our God, may your blessings be with us.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_90_17">Give us success in all we do!</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">HEBREW TITLE: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A prayer by Moses, the man of God.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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