1BOOK FOURTH: “A prayer of Moses the man of God.” Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations.
2Before yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3Thou turnest man to contrition, and sayest, Return ye children of men.
4For a thousand years are in thy eyes but as the 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 grow like the grass which changeth.
6In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.
7For thus are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 90
Psalms 90:1-8