Psalms 89:1-10

¹A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

²Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

³Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

⁴For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

⁵Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

⁶In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

⁷For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.

⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:

¹⁰The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.