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Psalm 90

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1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.

2 Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3 You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”

4 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

6 In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.

7 We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.

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

9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.

10 Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

11 If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.

12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

13 Relent, LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.

16 May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.

17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.

The Message Bible MSG

1 God, it seems you've been our home forever;

2 long before the mountains were born, Long before you brought earth itself to birth, from "once upon a time" to "kingdom come" - you are God.

3 So don't return us to mud, saying, "Back to where you came from!"

4 Patience! You've got all the time in the world - whether a thousand years or a day, it's all the same to you.

5 Are we no more to you than a wispy dream, no more than a blade of grass

6 That springs up gloriously with the rising sun and is cut down without a second thought?

7 Your anger is far and away too much for us; we're at the end of our rope.

8 You keep track of all our sins; every misdeed since we were children is entered in your books.

9 All we can remember is that frown on your face. Is that all we're ever going to get?

10 We live for seventy years or so (with luck we might make it to eighty), And what do we have to show for it? Trouble. Toil and trouble and a marker in the graveyard.

11 Who can make sense of such rage, such anger against the very ones who fear you?

12 Oh! Teach us to live well! Teach us to live wisely and well!

13 Come back, God - how long do we have to wait? - and treat your servants with kindness for a change.

14 Surprise us with love at daybreak; then we'll skip and dance all the day long.

15 Make up for the bad times with some good times; we've seen enough evil to last a lifetime.

16 Let your servants see what you're best at - the ways you rule and bless your children.

17 And let the loveliness of our Lord, our God, rest on us, confirming the work that we do. Oh, yes. Affirm the work that we do!