vastwar.blogg.se - Teach me to number my days

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

O satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Return, O L ORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.The days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.Thou carriest them away as with a flood they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest, Return, ye children of men.Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.Text Hebrew Bible version įollowing is the Hebrew text of Psalm 90: Verse Charles Ives completed a choral setting in 1924. It has been set to music, for example by Baroque composers Heinrich Schütz in German.

The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic liturgies. fourscore years", in the King James Version): it is believed that this verse was the influence for the opening words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. It is well known for its reference in verse 10 to human life expectancy being 70 or 80 ("threescore years and ten", or "if by reason of strength. Uniquely among the Psalms, it is attributed to Moses. It is the opening psalm of Book 4 of the psalms. In Latin, it is known as "Domine refugium tu factus es nobis in generatione et generatione". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 89.

Psalm 90 is the 90th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations".