Psalms 90:1-5

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,