For a Thousand Years in thy Sight - Psalm 90

LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Psalm 90:1  KJV

Psalm 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. 

Psalm 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children  of men.

Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.  

Psalm 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. 

Psalm 90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it  is cut down, and withereth. 

Psalm 90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we  troubled. 

Psalm 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in  the light of thy countenance. 

Psalm 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our  years as a tale that is told. 

Psalm 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.  

Psalm 90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy  fear, so is thy wrath. 

Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our  hearts unto wisdom. 

Psalm 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy  servants. 

Psalm 90:14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be  glad all our days. 

Psalm 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast  afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. 

Psalm 90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their  children. 

Psalm 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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