| Ps 90:1 | Moses, setting forth God's providence. |
| Ps 90:1 | ¶ A Prayer of Moses the man2 of God. Lord3, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations4. |
| Ps 90:2 | Before5 the mountains were brought forth, or ever6 thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from7 everlasting to everlasting, thou8 art God. |
| Ps 90:3 | complains of human fragility, |
| Ps 90:3 | Thou9 turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men10. |
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•WATCHES | For11 a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past12, and as a watch in the night. |
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•MORTALITY-IMMORTALITY | Thou13 carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep14: in the morning15 they are like grass which groweth up16. |
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•MORTALITY-IMMORTALITY | 17In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. |
| Ps 90:7 | divine chastisements, |
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•BLESSINGS-AFFLICTIONS | ¶ For we18 are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we19 troubled. |
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•CONCEALMENT-EXPOSURE
•INIQUITIES, OUR | Thou20 hast set our21 iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the22 light of thy countenance. |
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•LIFE-DEATH | For23 all our days are passed24 away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale25 that is told. |
| Ps 90:10 | and brevity of life. |
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•LIMITATIONS, HUMAN
•TRANSIENT-ENDURING | ¶ The days26 of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet27 is their strength labour and sorrow; for28 it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
| Ps 90:11 | 29Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. |
| Ps 90:12 | He prays for the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good providence. |
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•EXHORTATIONS, SPECIAL
•TIME, THE RIGHT USE OF
•WISDOM-FOLLY | ¶ So30 teach us to number our days, that31 we may apply our hearts32 unto wisdom. |
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•BLESSINGS-AFFLICTIONS | Return33, O LORD, how34 long? and let it35 repent thee concerning thy servants. |
| Ps 90:14 | O satisfy36 us early with thy mercy; that we37 may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
| Ps 90:15 | Make38 us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years39 wherein we have seen evil. |
| Ps 90:16 | Let40 thy work appear unto thy servants, and41 thy glory unto their children. |
| Ps 90:17 | And let42 the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish43 thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. |
