Psalm 89:38-91:13

English Standard Version

³⁸ But now you have ^(A)cast off and rejected;
    you are full of wrath against your ^(B)anointed.
³⁹ You have ^(C)renounced ^(D)the covenant with your servant;
    you have ^(E)defiled his ^(F)crown in the dust.
⁴⁰ You have ^(G)breached all his walls;
    you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
^41 (H)All who pass by plunder him;
    he has become ^(I)the scorn of his neighbors.
⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
    you have made all his enemies rejoice.
⁴³ You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
    and you have not made him stand in battle.
⁴⁴ You have made his splendor to cease
    and cast his throne to the ground.
⁴⁵ You have cut short ^(J)the days of his youth;
    you have ^(K)covered him with shame. Selah

^46 (L)How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?
    How long will your wrath ^(M)burn like fire?
^47 (N)Remember ^(O)how short my ^(P)time is!
    For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
^48 (Q)What man can live and never ^(R)see death?
    Who can deliver his soul from the power of ^(S)Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹ Lord, where is your ^(T)steadfast love of old,
    which by your ^(U)faithfulness you swore to David?
^50 (V)Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,
    and how I bear in my ^(W)heart the insults^[a] of all the many nations,
⁵¹ with which your enemies mock, O Lord,
    with which they mock ^(X)the footsteps of your ^(Y)anointed.

^52 (Z)Blessed be the Lord forever!
Amen and Amen.

³ You return man to dust
    and say, ^(AG)“Return, ^(AH)O children of man!”^[c]
4 For ^(AI)a thousand years in your sight
    are but as ^(AJ)yesterday when it is past,
    or as ^(AK)a watch in the night.

⁵ You ^(AL)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like ^(AM)a dream,
    like ^(AN)grass that is renewed in the morning:
⁶ in ^(AO)the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
    in the evening it ^(AP)fades and ^(AQ)withers.

⁷ For we are brought to an end by your anger;
    by your wrath we are dismayed.
⁸ You have ^(AR)set our iniquities before you,
    our ^(AS)secret sins in the light of your presence.

⁹ For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
¹⁰ The years of our life are seventy,
    or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span^[d] is but toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹ Who considers the power of your anger,
    and your wrath according to the fear of you?

^12 (AT)So teach us to number our days
    that we may get a heart of wisdom.
^13 (AU)Return, O Lord! ^(AV)How long?
    Have ^(AW)pity on your servants!
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the ^(AX)morning with your steadfast love,
    that we may ^(AY)rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have ^(AZ)afflicted us,
    and for as many years as we have seen evil.
¹⁶ Let your ^(BA)work be shown to your servants,
    and your glorious power to their children.
¹⁷ Let the ^(BB)favor^[e] of the Lord our God be upon us,
    and establish ^(BC)the work of our hands upon us;
    yes, establish the work of our hands!

³ For he will deliver you from ^(BI)the snare of the fowler
    and from the deadly pestilence.
⁴ He will ^(BJ)cover you with his pinions,
    and under his ^(BK)wings you will ^(BL)find refuge;
    his ^(BM)faithfulness is ^(BN)a shield and buckler.
^5 (BO)You will not fear ^(BP)the terror of the night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
    nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    but it will not come near you.
⁸ You will only look with your eyes
    and ^(BQ)see the recompense of the wicked.

⁹ Because you have made the Lord your ^(BR)dwelling place—
    the Most High, who is my ^(BS)refuge^[g]—
^10 (BT)no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
    ^(BU)no plague come near your tent.

^11 (BV)For he will command his ^(BW)angels concerning you
    to ^(BX)guard you in all your ways.
¹² On their hands they will bear you up,
    lest you ^(BY)strike your foot against a stone.
¹³ You will tread on ^(BZ)the lion and the ^(CA)adder;
    the young lion and ^(CB)the serpent you will ^(CC)trample underfoot.