Psalms 89:1-13

¹A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge in all generations.

²Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art.

³Turn not man back to his low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men?

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

⁵Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

⁶In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

⁷For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.

⁸Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

¹⁰As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

¹¹Who knows the power of thy wrath?

¹²and who knows how to number his days because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

¹³Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.