Psalm 90:3-10

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You ^(A)turn man back into dust
And say, “Return, O children of men.”

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For ^(B)a thousand years in Your sight
Are like ^(C)yesterday when it passes by,
^(a)Or as a ^(D)watch in the night.

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You ^(E)have ^(b)swept them away like a flood, they ^(c)^(F)fall asleep;
In the morning they are like ^(G)grass which ^(d)sprouts anew.

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In the morning it ^(H)flourishes and ^(e)sprouts anew;
Toward evening it ^(I)fades and ^(J)withers away.

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For we have been ^(K)consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been ^(f)dismayed.

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You have ^(L)placed our iniquities before You,
Our ^(M)secret sins in the light of Your presence.

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For ^(N)all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a ^(g)sigh.

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As for the days of our ^(h)life, ⁽ⁱ⁾they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, ^(O)eighty years,
Yet their pride is but ^(P)labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we ^(Q)fly away.

Footnotes:

a. Psalm 90:4: ['Or ', And]

b. Psalm 90:5: ['Or ', flooded]

c. Psalm 90:5: ['Lit ', become asleep]

d. Psalm 90:5: ['Or ', passes away]

e. Psalm 90:6: ['Or ', passes away]

f. Psalm 90:7: ['Or ', terrified]

g. Psalm 90:9: ['Or ', whisper]

h. Psalm 90:10: ['Lit ', years]

i. Psalm 90:10: ['Lit ', in them are]

Cross references:

A. Psalm 90:3: Genesis 3:19; Job 34:14; Job 34:15; Psalm 104:29

B. Psalm 90:4: 2 Peter 3:8

C. Psalm 90:4: Psalm 39:5

D. Psalm 90:4: Exodus 14:24; Judges 7:19

E. Psalm 90:5: Job 22:16; Job 27:20

F. Psalm 90:5: Job 14:12; Job 20:8; Psalm 76:5

G. Psalm 90:5: Psalm 103:15; Isaiah 40:6

H. Psalm 90:6: Job 14:2

I. Psalm 90:6: Psalm 92:7; Matthew 6:30

J. Psalm 90:6: James 1:11

K. Psalm 90:7: Psalm 39:11

L. Psalm 90:8: Psalm 50:21; Jeremiah 16:17

M. Psalm 90:8: Psalm 19:12

N. Psalm 90:9: Psalm 78:33

P. Psalm 90:10: Jeremiah 20:18

Q. Psalm 90:10: Job 20:8; Psalm 78:39