PSALM 90. _Domine, refugium_.
Lord, thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and
the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world
without end.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again,
ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: seeing
that is past as a watch in the night.
5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep: and
fade away suddenly like the grass.
6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening
it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
7 For we consume away in thy displeasure: and are afraid at thy
wrathful indignation.
8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins
in the light of thy countenance.
9 For when thou art angry all our days are gone: we bring our
years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.
10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though
men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their
strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and
we are gone.
11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter
as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.
12 So teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom.
13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last: and be gracious unto thy
servants.
14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice
and be glad all the days of our life.
15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us:
and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.