Psalm 90C

Psalm 90C: Psalm 90

St. Catherine, 88.88.88. [B]

1.	¹ Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place Through all the ages of our race. ² Before the moutains had their birth, Or ever Thou hadst formed the earth, From years which no beginning had To years unending, Thou art God.
2.	³ Thou turnest man to dust again, And say'st, "Return, ye sons of men." ⁴ As yesterday when past appears, So are to Thee a thousand years; They like a day are in Thy sight, Yes, like a passing watch by night.
3.	⁵ Thou with a flood hast swept men on; They like a sleep are quickly gone. They are like grass which grows each morn; ⁶ Its blades of green the fields adorn. At morn its sprouts and blossoms rise; At eve, cut down, it withered lies.
4.	⁷ For by Thine anger we're consumed, And by Thy wrath to terror doomed. ⁸ Our sins Thou in Thy sight dost place, Our secret faults before Thy face; ⁹ So in Thy wrath our days we end, And like a sigh our years we spend.
5.	¹⁰ For some life's years are seventy; Perhaps the strong may eighty see; Their best involves but toil and woe; All quickly ends. How soon we go! ¹¹ Who has Thine anger understood? Who fears Thy fury as he should?
6.	¹² O teach Thou us to count our days And set our hearts on wisdom's ways. ¹³ How long, O LORD? Return! Repent, And toward Thy servants now relent. ¹⁴ Each morning fill us with Thy grace; We'll sing for joy through all our days.
7.	¹⁵ According to the days we spend Beneath affliction Thou has sent, And all the years we evil knew, Now make us glad, our joy renew. ¹⁶ Thy work in all Thy servants show; Thy glory on their sons bestow.
8.	¹⁷ On us let there be shed abroad The beauty of the LORD our God. Our handiwork upon us be Established evermore by Thee. Yes, let our handiwork now be Established evermore by Thee.