Psalms 90:5-15

⁵You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—

⁶it sprouts in the morning, fresh and new, but by the evening it is withered and dead.

⁷We are burned up by your anger, terrified by your fury.

⁸You have set out our sins before you—our secret sins are visible in the light of your presence.

⁹Our lives fade away under your anger, coming to an end as quickly as a sigh.

¹⁰We live for seventy years—eighty if we have the strength. But even in the prime of life all that we have is hardship and suffering. Soon our lives are over and we're gone.

¹¹Who can know the power of your anger? Who understands your fury so you can be shown reverence?

¹²Teach us to value every one of our days so we can live wisely!

¹³Lord, how long will it be before you come back to us and have pity on us your servants?

¹⁴Show us every morning your trustworthy love so we may be happy, full of joy throughout our lives.

¹⁵Make us glad for as many days as you made us sad, for all the years we suffered!