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Psalms 90 (AMP)

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¹ A Prayer of Moses the man of God. LORD, YOU have been our dwelling place and our refuge in all generations . ² Before the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed and given birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God. ³ You turn man back to dust and corruption, and say, Return, O sons of the earthborn ! ⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. ⁵ You carry away as with a flood; they are as a sleep . In the morning they are like grass which grows up-- ⁶ In the morning it flourishes and springs up; in the evening it is mown down and withers. ⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath are we troubled, overwhelmed, and frightened away. ⁸ Our iniquities, our secret heart and its sins , You have set in the light of Your countenance. ⁹ For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told . ¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten (seventy years)--or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years); yet is their pride only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away. ¹¹ Who knows the power of Your anger? And Your wrath, who connects it with the reverent and worshipful fear that is due You? ¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom. ¹³ Turn, O Lord ! How long--? Revoke Your sentence and be compassionate and at ease toward Your servants. ¹⁴ O satisfy us with Your mercy and loving-kindness in the morning , that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. ¹⁵ Make us glad in proportion to the days in which You have afflicted us and to the years in which we have suffered evil. ¹⁶ Let Your work be revealed to Your servants, and Your majesty to their children. ¹⁷ And let the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands--yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it.