Book of Common Prayer

90 LORD, You have been our habitation from generation to generation.

² Before the mountains were made (and You had formed the Earth and the world), even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³ You turn man to contrition. Again, You say, “Return, you sons of Adam.”

⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵ You have overflowed them. They are asleep. In the morning, they grow like the grass.

⁶ In the morning it flourishes and grows. In the evening, it is cut down and withers.

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger; and by Your wrath are we troubled.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before You, and our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.

⁹ For all our days have passed away in Your anger. We have spent our years as a thought.

¹⁰ The time of our life is threescore years and ten (and if they be of strength, fourscore years). Yet, their strength is but labor and sorrow; for it is cut off quickly and we flee away.

¹¹ Who knows the power of Your wrath? For according to Your fear is Your anger.

¹² Teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

¹³ Return (O LORD, how long?) and be pacified toward Your servants.

¹⁴ Fill us with Your mercy in the morning. So shall we rejoice and be glad all our days!

¹⁵ Comfort us according to the days that You have afflicted us, according to the years that we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let Your work be seen toward Your servants, and Your Glory upon their children.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us and direct the work of our hands upon us, even direct the work of our hands.

¹⁵ “And you shall leave your name as a curse to My Chosen. For the LORD God shall slay you and call His servants by another name.

¹⁶ “He who shall bless on the Earth, shall bless himself in the true God. And he who swears on the Earth, shall swear by the true God. For the former troubles are forgotten, and shall surely hide themselves from My Eyes.

¹⁷ “For lo, I will create new heavens and a new Earth. And the former shall neither be remembered nor come to mind.

¹⁸ “But be glad and rejoice forever in the things that I shall create. For behold, I will create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, and her people as a joy.

¹⁹ “And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in My people. And the voice of weeping shall be heard no more in her, nor the voice of crying.

²⁰ “No more shall there be there a child of no years, or an old man who has not filled his days. For he who shall be a hundred years old shall die a young man. But the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

²¹ “And they shall build houses and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

²² “They shall not build, and another inhabit. They shall not plant, and another eat. For as the days of the tree are the days of My people. And My Elect shall enjoy the work of their hands in old age.

²³ “They shall neither labor in vain nor bring forth in fear. For they are the seed of the Blessed of the LORD, and their buds with them.

²⁴ “Yea, before they call, I will answer. And while they speak, I will hear.

²⁵ “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And dust shall be food to the serpent. They shall neither hurt nor destroy anymore, in all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

21 And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth. For the first Heaven and the first Earth had passed away. And there was no more sea.

² And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, come down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

³ And I heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying, “Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with man! And He will dwell with them! And they shall be His people! And God Himself shall be their God with them!

⁴ “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes! And there shall be no more death or sorrow or crying. Nor shall there be any more pain. For the first things are passed!”

⁵ And He who sat upon the throne, said, “Behold, I make all things new!” And He said to me, “Write. For these things are faithful and true.”

⁶ And He said to me, “It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give freely from the well of the water of life to him who is thirsty.