Psalms 90:1-10

¹A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been a home to us one generation after another.

²Before the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

³You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.

⁴For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.

⁵Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,

⁶which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.

⁷For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.

⁸Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.

⁹For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.

¹⁰The span of our life is seventy years, or, if we are strong, maybe eighty; yet is their breadth but empty toil, for swiftly they go, and we fly away.