Psalms 90

¹The Praise of a Canticle, of David. Whoever dwells with the assistance of the Most High will abide in the protection of the God of heaven.

²He will say to the Lord, “You are my supporter and my refuge.” My God, I will hope in him.

³For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word.

⁴He will overshadow you with his shoulders, and you will hope under his wings.

⁵His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night,

⁶before the arrow flying in the day, before the troubles that wander in the darkness, nor of invasion and the midday demon.

⁷A thousand will fall before your side and ten thousand before your right hand. Yet it will not draw near you.

⁸So then, truly, you will consider with your eyes, and you will see the retribution of sinners.

⁹For you, O Lord, are my hope. You have set the Most High as your refuge.

¹⁰Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle.

¹¹For he has given his Angels charge over you, so as to preserve you in all your ways.

¹²With their hands, they will carry you, lest you hurt your foot against a stone.

¹³You will walk over the asp and the king serpent, and you will trample the lion and the dragon.

¹⁴Because he has hoped in me, I will free him. I will protect him because he has known my name.

¹⁵He will cry out to me, and I will heed him. I am with him in tribulation. I will rescue him, and I will glorify him.

¹⁶I will fill him with length of days. And I will reveal to him my salvation.

Psalms 90

¹Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

²Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

³Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

⁴For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

¹⁰The 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.

¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

¹³Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

¹⁴O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

¹⁷And 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.