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90:1  O Lord, you have always been our home.
90:2  Before you created the hills or brought the world into being, you were eternally God, and will be God forever.
90:3  You tell us to return to what we were; you change us back to dust.
90:4  A thousand years to you are like one day; they are like yesterday, already gone, like a short hour in the night.
90:5  You carry us away like a flood; we last no longer than a dream. We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,
90:6  that grow and burst into bloom, then dry up and die in the evening.
90:7  We are destroyed by your anger; we are terrified by your fury.
90:8  You place our sins before you, our secret sins where you can see them.
90:9  Our life is cut short by your anger; it fades away like a whisper.
90:10  Seventy years is all we have— eighty years, if we are strong; yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow; life is soon over, and we are gone.
90:11  Who has felt the full power of your anger? Who knows what fear your fury can bring?
90:12  Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.
90:13  How much longer will your anger last? Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!
90:14  Fill us each morning with your constant love, so that we may sing and be glad all our life.
90:15  Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us during all our years of misery.
90:16  Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds; let our descendants see your glorious might.
90:17  Lord our God, may your blessings be with us. Give us success in all we do!