Psalms 90:1-10

¹“BOOK IV. A prayer of Moses, the man of God.” LORD! thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations!

²Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God!

³But man thou turnest again to dust, And sayst, “Return, ye children of men!”

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

⁵Thou carriest him away as with a flood; He is a dream; In the morning he springeth up like grass,

⁶Which flourisheth and shooteth up in the morning, And in the evening is cut down, and withered.

⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, And by thy wrath are we destroyed.

⁸Thou settest our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹By reason of thine anger all our days vanish away; We spend our years like a thought.

¹⁰The days of our life are threescore years and ten, And, by reason of strength, may be fourscore years: Yet is the pride of them weariness and sorrow; For it vanisheth swiftly, and we fly away.