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Psalm 90 Lyrics

Psalms 90:1: LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psalms 90:2: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Psalms 90:3: Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Psalms 90:4: For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psalms 90:5: Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms 90:6: In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms 90:7: For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms 90:8: Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 90:9: For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psalms 90:10: 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.
Psalms 90:11: Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psalms 90:12: So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Psalms 90:13: Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Psalms 90:14: O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psalms 90:15: Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Psalms 90:16: Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
Psalms 90:17: 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.

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