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Psalms 90

A prayer of Moses that sets God's eternity against human frailty. A thousand years are like yesterday to God, while our lives pass like grass and are soon gone. Moses asks God to teach us to number our days, and to establish the work of our hands.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1God has been his people's home in every generation.
  • Verse 4A thousand years are like a day to God.
  • Verse 12Ask God to teach us to number our days wisely.

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.SelectedPsalms 90:1Ask

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.SelectedPsalms 90:2Ask

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.SelectedPsalms 90:3Ask

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.SelectedPsalms 90:4Ask

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.SelectedPsalms 90:5Ask

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.SelectedPsalms 90:6Ask

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.SelectedPsalms 90:7Ask

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.SelectedPsalms 90:8Ask

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.SelectedPsalms 90:9Ask

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.SelectedPsalms 90:10Ask

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.SelectedPsalms 90:11Ask

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.SelectedPsalms 90:12Ask

Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.SelectedPsalms 90:13Ask

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.SelectedPsalms 90:14Ask

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.SelectedPsalms 90:15Ask

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.SelectedPsalms 90:16Ask

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.SelectedPsalms 90:17Ask

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