Psalm 90-95

English Standard Version

³ You return man to dust
    and say, ^(G)“Return, ^(H)O children of man!”^[b]
4 For ^(I)a thousand years in your sight
    are but as ^(J)yesterday when it is past,
    or as ^(K)a watch in the night.

⁵ You ^(L)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like ^(M)a dream,
    like ^(N)grass that is renewed in the morning:
⁶ in ^(O)the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
    in the evening it ^(P)fades and ^(Q)withers.

⁷ For we are brought to an end by your anger;
    by your wrath we are dismayed.
⁸ You have ^(R)set our iniquities before you,
    our ^(S)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^[c] 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 (T)So teach us to number our days
    that we may get a heart of wisdom.
^13 (U)Return, O Lord! ^(V)How long?
    Have ^(W)pity on your servants!
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the ^(X)morning with your steadfast love,
    that we may ^(Y)rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have ^(Z)afflicted us,
    and for as many years as we have seen evil.
¹⁶ Let your ^(AA)work be shown to your servants,
    and your glorious power to their children.
¹⁷ Let the ^(AB)favor^[d] of the Lord our God be upon us,
    and establish ^(AC)the work of our hands upon us;
    yes, establish the work of our hands!

³ For he will deliver you from ^(AI)the snare of the fowler
    and from the deadly pestilence.
⁴ He will ^(AJ)cover you with his pinions,
    and under his ^(AK)wings you will ^(AL)find refuge;
    his ^(AM)faithfulness is ^(AN)a shield and buckler.
^5 (AO)You will not fear ^(AP)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 ^(AQ)see the recompense of the wicked.

⁹ Because you have made the Lord your ^(AR)dwelling place—
    the Most High, who is my ^(AS)refuge^[f]—
^10 (AT)no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
    ^(AU)no plague come near your tent.

^11 (AV)For he will command his ^(AW)angels concerning you
    to ^(AX)guard you in all your ways.
¹² On their hands they will bear you up,
    lest you ^(AY)strike your foot against a stone.
¹³ You will tread on ^(AZ)the lion and the ^(BA)adder;
    the young lion and ^(BB)the serpent you will ^(BC)trample underfoot.

¹⁴ “Because he ^(BD)holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;
    I will protect him, because he ^(BE)knows my name.
¹⁵ When he ^(BF)calls to me, I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble;
    I will rescue him and ^(BG)honor him.
¹⁶ With ^(BH)long life I will satisfy him
    and ^(BI)show him my salvation.”

⁵ How ^(BU)great are your works, O Lord!
    Your ^(BV)thoughts are very ^(BW)deep!
⁶ The stupid man cannot know;
    the fool cannot understand this:
⁷ that though ^(BX)the wicked sprout like grass
    and all ^(BY)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
⁸     but you, O Lord, are ^(BZ)on high forever.
⁹ For behold, your enemies, O Lord,
    for behold, your enemies shall perish;
    all evildoers shall be ^(CA)scattered.

¹⁰ But you have exalted my ^(CB)horn like that of ^(CC)the wild ox;
    you have ^(CD)poured over me^[g] fresh oil.
¹¹ My ^(CE)eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;
    my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

^12 (CF)The righteous flourish like the palm tree
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹³ They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in ^(CG)the courts of our God.
¹⁴ They still bear fruit in old age;
    they are ever full of sap and green,
^15 (CH)to declare that the Lord is upright;
    he is my ^(CI)rock, and there is ^(CJ)no unrighteousness in him.

^3 (CS)The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
    the floods have lifted up their voice;
    the floods lift up their roaring.
⁴ Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
    mightier than the waves of the sea,
    ^(CT)the Lord ^(CU)on high is mighty!

⁵ Your ^(CV)decrees are very trustworthy;
    ^(CW)holiness befits your house,
    O Lord, forevermore.

^8 (DK)Understand, O dullest of the people!
    Fools, when will you be wise?
^9 (DL)He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
¹⁰ He who ^(DM)disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?
He who ^(DN)teaches man knowledge—
^{11     (DO)}the Lord—knows the thoughts of man,
    that they are ^(DP)but a breath.^[h]

^12 (DQ)Blessed is the man whom you ^(DR)discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,
¹³ to give him ^(DS)rest from ^(DT)days of trouble,
    until ^(DU)a pit is dug for the wicked.
^14 (DV)For the Lord will not forsake his ^(DW)people;
    he will not abandon his ^(DX)heritage;
¹⁵ for ^(DY)justice will return to the righteous,
    and all the upright in heart will ^(DZ)follow it.

^16 (EA)Who rises up for me against the wicked?
    Who stands up for me against evildoers?
^17 (EB)If the Lord had not been my help,
    my soul would soon have lived in the land of ^(EC)silence.
¹⁸ When I thought, ^(ED)“My foot slips,”
    your steadfast love, O Lord, ^(EE)held me up.
¹⁹ When the cares of my heart are many,
    your consolations cheer my soul.
²⁰ Can ^(EF)wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who frame^[i] injustice by ^(EG)statute?
²¹ They ^(EH)band together against the life of the righteous
    and condemn ^(EI)the innocent to death.^[j]
22 But the Lord has become my ^(EJ)stronghold,
    and my God ^(EK)the rock of my ^(EL)refuge.
²³ He will bring back on them ^(EM)their iniquity
    and ^(EN)wipe them out for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will wipe them out.

⁶ Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
    let us ^(EW)kneel before the Lord, our ^(EX)Maker!
⁷ For he is our ^(EY)God,
    and we are the people of his ^(EZ)pasture,
    and the sheep of his hand.
^(FA)Today, if you ^(FB)hear his voice,
^{8     (FC)}do not harden your hearts, as at ^(FD)Meribah,
    as on the day at ^(FE)Massah in the wilderness,
⁹ when your fathers put me to the ^(FF)test
    and put me to the proof, though they had seen my ^(FG)work.
^10 (FH)For forty years I loathed that generation
    and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
    and they have not known ^(FI)my ways.”
¹¹ Therefore I ^(FJ)swore in my wrath,
    “They shall not enter ^(FK)my rest.”