Psalm 90:1-6

Common English Bible

BOOK IV

(Psalms 90–106)

Psalm 90

A prayer of Moses, the man of God.

90 Lord, you have been our help,
    generation after generation.
²Before the mountains were born,
    before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world—
    from forever in the past
    to forever in the future, you are God.

³You return people to dust,
    saying, “Go back, humans,”
⁴    because in your perspective a thousand years
    are like yesterday past,
    like a short period during the night watch.
⁵You sweep humans away like a dream,
    like grass that is renewed in the morning.
⁶True, in the morning it thrives, renewed,
    but come evening it withers, all dried up.