Psalm 90:1-12
(A prayer by Moses, the man of God.)
God Is Eternal

Our Lord, in all generations you have been our home.
² You have always been God – long before the birth of the mountains,
even before you created the earth and the world.

³ At your command we die and turn back to dust,
⁴     but a thousand years mean nothing to you!
They are merely a day gone by or a few hours in the night.

⁵ You bring our lives to an end just like a dream.
We are merely tender grass that sprouts and grows in the morning, but dries up by evening.
⁷ Your furious anger frightens and destroys us,
⁸ and you know all of our sins, even those we do in secret.

⁹ Your anger is a burden each day we live, then life ends like a sigh.
¹⁰ We can expect seventy years, or maybe eighty, if we are healthy,
but even our best years bring trouble and sorrow.
Suddenly our time is up, and we disappear.
¹¹ No one knows the full power of your furious anger,
but it is as great as the fear that we owe to you.
¹² Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.

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