God.
[3] Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
[4] For a thousand years
in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
[5] Thou carriest them away
as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
[6] In the morning
it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
[7] For we are consumed by
thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
[8] Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins
in the light of thy countenance.
[9] For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as
a tale that is told.
[10] 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.
[11]
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
[12] So teach us to
number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
[13] Return, O LORD, how long? and let
it repent thee concerning thy servants.
[14] O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and
be glad all our days.
[15] Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the
years wherein we have seen evil.
[16] Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their
children.
[17] And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our
hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Pss.91
[1] He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
[2]
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
[3] Surely he shall
deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
[4] He shall cover thee with
his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
[5] Thou shalt
not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
[6] Nor for the pestilence that walketh
in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
[7] A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
[8] Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold
and see the reward of the wicked.
[9] Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the
most High, thy habitation;
[10] There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy
dwelling.
[11] For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
[12] They shall
bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
[13] Thou shalt tread upon the lion
and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
[14] Because he hath set his
love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
[15]
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour
him.
[16] With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Pss.92
[1] It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
[2]
To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
[3] Upon an instrument
of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
[4] For thou, LORD, hast made
me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
[5] O LORD, how great are thy works!
and thy thoughts are very deep.
[6] A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
[7]
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall
be destroyed for ever:
[8] But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
[9] For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD,
for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
[10] But my horn shalt
thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
[11] Mine eye also shall see my
desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
[12]
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
[13] Those that be
planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
[14] They shall still bring forth
fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
[15] To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and
there is no unrighteousness in him.