Psalms 90:2-16

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

³You return man to dust, and you say, “Return, you descendants of mankind.”

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

⁵You sweep them away as with a flood and they sleep; in the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up.

⁶In the morning it blooms and grows up; in the evening it withers and dries up.

⁷Truly, we are consumed in your anger, and in your wrath we are terrified.

⁸You have set our iniquities before you, our hidden sins in the light of your presence.

⁹Our life passes away under your wrath; our years quickly pass like a sigh.

¹⁰Our years are seventy, or even eighty if we are healthy; but even our best years are marked by trouble and sorrow. Yes, they pass quickly, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knows the intensity of your anger, and your wrath that is equal to the fear of you?

¹²So teach us to consider our life so that we might live wisely.

¹³Turn back, Yahweh! How long will it be? Have pity on your servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with your covenant faithfulness so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad in proportion to the days you afflicted us and to the years we have experienced trouble.

¹⁶Let your servants see your work, and let our children see your majesty.