Psalms 90
90
Book IV
(Psalms 90—106)
Psalm 90
God’s Eternity and Human Frailty
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
1 #
Deut 33.27; Ezek 11.16 Lord, you have been our dwelling place#90.1 Or our refuge
in all generations.
2 #
Ps 93.2; 102.25; Prov 8.25 Before the mountains were brought forth
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 #
Gen 3.19
You turn us#90.3 Heb humankind back to dust
and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”
4 #
Ps 39.5; 2 Pet 3.8 For a thousand years in your sight
are like yesterday when it is past
or like a watch in the night.
5 #
Job 27.20; Ps 73.20; 103.15; Isa 40.6 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;
6 #
Job 14.2; Ps 92.7 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.
7For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
8 #
Ps 19.12; 50.21; Jer 16.17 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
9 #
Ps 78.33
For all our days pass away under your wrath;
our years come to an end#90.9 Syr: Heb we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 #
Eccl 12.2–7
The days of our life are seventy years
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span#90.10 Cn Compare Gk Syr Jerome Tg: Heb pride is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
11 #
Ps 76.7
Who considers the power of your anger?
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
12 #
Ps 39.4
So teach us to count our days
that we may gain a wise heart.
13 #
Deut 32.26; Ps 135.14 Turn, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
14 #
Ps 65.4; 85.6 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us
and as many years as we have seen evil.
16 #
1 Kings 8.11; Hab 3.2 Let your work be manifest to your servants
and your glorious power to their children.
17 #
Ps 27.4; Isa 26.12 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us
and prosper for us the work of our hands—
O prosper the work of our hands!
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