Psalms 90:1-10

¹A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, through every generation, you have been “home” for us!

²Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the universe, from eternity past to eternity future, you are God.

³You turn people back into dust, saying, “Return to dust, human beings.”

⁴In your eyes, a thousand years are like a day that's already gone; like a few passing hours of the night.

⁵You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—

⁶it sprouts in the morning, fresh and new, but by the evening it is withered and dead.

⁷We are burned up by your anger, terrified by your fury.

⁸You have set out our sins before you—our secret sins are visible in the light of your presence.

⁹Our lives fade away under your anger, coming to an end as quickly as a sigh.

¹⁰We live for seventy years—eighty if we have the strength. But even in the prime of life all that we have is hardship and suffering. Soon our lives are over and we're gone.