Psalm 90

²⁷The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

¹⁶And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

³Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.

¹He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

¹⁶Therefore declare that this is what the Lord God says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’

⁹Because you have made the Lord your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—

⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

²⁴I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

²⁵In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

⁸“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.

²Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.

⁹For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

⁷before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

²⁹When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

⁴When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

³⁵I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”

¹⁴If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

¹⁵all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

⁸Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

⁵You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

⁴³But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

³⁸Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.

²⁵During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.

⁶A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

¹⁶They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

²⁰Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

²⁴For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

¹⁵As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;

¹⁶when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

²⁰Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

²¹The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

²Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

⁷that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

¹¹For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

¹¹You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

²⁴At morning watch, however, the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.

¹²Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

¹³Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the Lord will die. Are we all going to perish?”

⁸But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

⁹There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

¹⁴The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

¹⁵Indeed, the Lord’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.

¹³Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah

¹⁷For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

¹⁴For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

¹²Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

¹²For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

²⁴“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

¹¹He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

³³So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

⁵You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

⁴For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

¹⁴You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

³⁵I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

⁹“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

⁷Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

¹Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.

⁶Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

¹⁴The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

²⁴then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

¹⁷For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

⁵⁹He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

²⁰The Lord will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The Lord will blot out his name from under heaven

²¹and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

⁴“Show me, O Lord, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

⁴While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

²⁹If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

⁷Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.

¹³Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,

¹⁴for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.

³⁶For the Lord will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

¹⁴For the Lord will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.

¹⁴Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

⁹Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

¹³So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

¹⁴Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the Lord your God.

⁶Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

⁶Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

⁴Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.

³He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

⁴who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

⁴Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

⁵For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

⁵Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

⁶He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

²⁰Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

¹“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

²“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.”

¹In that day you will say: “O Lord, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

¹²They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the Lord—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

¹³Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

²O Lord, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O Lord, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!

¹For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

⁴He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

³⁹And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

¹⁵If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

¹⁶‘Because the Lord was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

¹²I will reflect on all You have done and ponder Your mighty deeds.

³Commit your works to the Lord and your plans will be achieved.

⁷So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

¹⁶Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

²⁸Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

¹²O Lord, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.

²⁵O Lord, save us, we pray. We beseech You, O Lord, cause us to prosper!