Psalms 90:1-11

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

²Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.

³Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

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

⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

⁶In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.

⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.

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

⁹For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.

¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?