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90:1  A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
90:2  Before the mountains were brought forth or the earth and the world came into existence, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
90:3  You turn men back to dust, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
90:4  For to you a thousand years are like a yesterday that has passed or one of the watches of the night.
90:5  You snatch them away like a dream; they are like the grass of the field,
90:6  which at dawn flourishes and is green but by nightfall is withered and dry.
90:7  We have been brought low by your anger and overwhelmed with terror by your wrath.
90:8  You have not forgotten our iniquities; our secret sins are clearly visible in your sight.
90:9  All our days pass away under your wrath; our years are consumed like a sigh.
90:10  The span of our life numbers seventy years, or perhaps eighty, if we have enough strength. Most of them are marked by toil and emptiness; they pass swiftly, and then we fly away.
90:11  Who understands the might of your anger and rightly fears the power of your wrath?
90:12  Teach us to comprehend how few our days are so that our hearts may be filled with wisdom.
90:13  Return, O Lord. How long must we wait? Show compassion to your servants.
90:14  Fill us with your kindness in the morning so that we may exult and be glad all our days.
90:15  Grant us joy for as many days as you have afflicted us and for as many years as we have known misfortune.
90:16  Manifest your works to your servants and your glory to their children.
90:17  May the favor of the Lord, our God, rest upon us. And may the work of our hands prosper— indeed, may the work of our hands prosper.