A prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the shortness and miseries of the days of man. 89:1. A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. 89:2. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God. 89:3. Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. Turn not man away, etc. . .Suffer him not quite to perish from thee, since thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee. 89:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night, 89:5. Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. 89:6. In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither. 89:7. For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation. 89:8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance. 89:9. For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider: As a spider. . .As frail and weak as a spider's web; and miserable withal, whilst like a spider we spend our bowels in weaving webs to catch flies. 89:10. The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected. Mildness is come upon us, etc. . .God's mildness corrects us; inasmuch as he deals kindly with us, in shortening the days of this miserable life; and so weaning our affections from all its transitory enjoyments, and teaching us true wisdom. 89:11. Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear 89:12. Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom. 89:13. Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants. 89:14. We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days. 89:15. We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils. 89:16. Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children. 89:17. And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct. Psalms Chapter 90 Qui habitat. The just is secure under the protection of God. 90:1. The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob. 90:2. He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust. 90:3. For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word. 90:4. He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings thou shalt trust.