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A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations (90:1)

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God (90:2)

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men (90:3)

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night (90:4)

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up (90:5)

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth (90:6)

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled (90:7)

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance (90:8)

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told (90:9)

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away (90:10)

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath (90:11)

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom (90:12)

Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants (90:13)

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days (90:14)

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil (90:15)

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children (90:16)

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it (90:17)

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