[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!