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Psalms 90

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Part of Book IV📖 Psalms introduction

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1Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. ✦ 2Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. ✦ 3You turn man to destruction, And say, “Return, O children of men.” ✦ 4For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night. ✦ 5You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up: ✦ 6In the morning it flourishes and grows up; In the evening it is cut down and withers. ✦ 7For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified. ✦ 8You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. ✦ 9For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh. ✦ 10The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. ✦ 11Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. ✦ 12So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom. ✦ 13Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants. ✦ 14Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days! ✦ 15Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen evil. ✦ 16Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your glory to their children. ✦ 17And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

In this chapter

Concept Eternity

Where this chapter connects

Luke 12 ·5Ps 80 ·4Lev 26 ·4Ps 39 ·4Ps 90 ·3Deut 32 ·3Ps 103 ·3Num 14 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 90 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Resources, by level

Lay

  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 90YouTube · Lay · Free

    Sermons and chapter teaching from across YouTube.

  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 90David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 90Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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