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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/89.htm" title="Psalm 89">◄</a> Psalm 90 <a href="../psalms/91.htm" title="Psalm 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch23090" class="chapter"> <h1 class="bksect">Fourth Book—Psalms 90–106</h1> <h1 id="cn23090" class="cn"><a class="xlef" hlef="#rbk23"><span class="ac">Psalm</span> 90</a><a id="rfn23090000-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23090000-1">*</a></h1> <h1 class="cs">God’s Eternity and Human Frailty</h1> <p class="pf-center"><span id="v23090001" class="ver">1</span>A prayer of Moses, the man of God.</p> <p class="chsect">I</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">Lord, you have been our refuge</p> <p class="sl1">through all generations.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090002" class="ver">2</span>Before the mountains were born,</p> <p class="sl1">the earth and the world brought forth,</p> <p class="sl1">from eternity to eternity you are God.<a id="ren23090002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090002-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090003" class="ver">3</span>You turn humanity back into dust,<a id="rfn23090003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23090003-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”<a id="ren23090003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090003-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090004" class="ver">4</span>A thousand years in your eyes</p> <p class="sl1">are merely a day gone by,<a id="ren23090004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090004-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl">Before a watch passes in the night,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v23090005" class="ver">5</span><a id="rfn23090005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23090005-1">*</a>you wash them away;<a id="ren23090005-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090005-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl">They sleep,</p> <p class="sl1">and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090006" class="ver">6</span>In the morning it blooms only to pass away;</p> <p class="sl1">in the evening it is wilted and withered.<a id="rfn23090006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23090006-1">*</a><a id="ren23090006-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090006-e">e</a></p> </div> <p class="chsect">II</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23090007" class="ver">7</span>Truly we are consumed by your anger,</p> <p class="sl1">filled with terror by your wrath.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090008" class="ver">8</span>You have kept our faults before you,</p> <p class="sl1">our hidden sins in the light of your face.<a id="ren23090008-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090008-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090009" class="ver">9</span>Our life ebbs away under your wrath;<a id="ren23090009-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090009-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl1">our years end like a sigh.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090010" class="ver">10</span>Seventy is the sum of our years,</p> <p class="sl1">or eighty, if we are strong;</p> <p class="sl">Most of them are toil and sorrow;</p> <p class="sl1">they pass quickly, and we are gone.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090011" class="ver">11</span>Who comprehends the strength of your anger?</p> <p class="sl1">Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090012" class="ver">12</span>Teach us to count our days aright,</p> <p class="sl1">that we may gain wisdom of heart.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">III</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23090013" class="ver">13</span>Relent, O <span class="tetr">Lord</span>! How long?</p> <p class="sl1">Have pity on your servants!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090014" class="ver">14</span>Fill us at daybreak with your mercy,<a id="ren23090014-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090014-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl1">that all our days we may sing for joy.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090015" class="ver">15</span>Make us glad as many days as you humbled us,</p> <p class="sl1">for as many years as we have seen trouble.<a id="ren23090015-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090015-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090016" class="ver">16</span>Show your deeds to your servants,</p> <p class="sl1">your glory to their children.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23090017" class="ver">17</span>May the favor of the Lord our God be ours.<a id="ren23090017-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23090017-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl1">Prosper the work of our hands!</p> <p class="sl1">Prosper the work of our hands!</p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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