Old Testament

Psalms 90

Refuge, Mortality, and Mercy

6 passages

Overview

Attributed to Moses, Psalm 90 opens by declaring God the eternal dwelling place of every generation, moves through a sobering meditation on human brevity, sin, and divine wrath, and arrives at urgent petitions for the wisdom to number our days rightly and for God to restore joy and crown his people's labors with his favor.

Passages

1–2God as Eternal Dwelling Place 3–6Dust and Dawn: The Brevity of Human Life Before the Eternal God 7–9Consumed by Wrath, Seen by God 10–11The Seventy Years of Human Life and the Fear of God's Wrath 12The Pivotal Prayer for Wisdom 13–17Dawn of Mercy: Petitions for God's Relenting and Blessing

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Psalms 90

¹A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

²Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

³You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

⁴For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

⁵You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

⁶In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

⁷For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

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

⁹For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

¹⁰The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

¹²So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

¹³Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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

¹⁶Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

¹⁷Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

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