Psalm 90: complete, commentary


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CommentPsalm 90 presents the precarious condition of human life, exposed every day to many sufferings and upheavals caused by power struggles. In a tone illuminated by high wisdom, he says he is aware that life is short, which is why he asks God to teach us to count our days to become wise in the heart. God represents a certain refuge because it has always existed, not having been created by man.


Psalm 90 complete

[1] Prayer. Of Moses, man of God. Lord, you have been a refuge for us from generation to generation.

[2] Before the mountains and the earth and the world were born, you are always and forever you are God.


[3] You return the man to dust and say: "Return, children of man".

[4] In your eyes, a thousand years are like yesterday's day that has passed, like a waking shift in the night.

[5] You annihilate them: you submerge them in your sleep; they are like the grass that sprouts in the morning:


[6] in the morning it blooms, sprouts, in the evening it is mowed and dried.

[7] Because we are destroyed by your anger, we are terrified by your fury.

[8] Before you lay our sins, our hidden sins in the light of your face.


[9] All our days vanish from your anger, we end our years like a breath.

[10] The years of our life are seventy, eighty for the most robust, but almost all of them are fatigue, pain; they pass quickly and we vanish.

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[11] Who knows the impetus of your anger, your anger, with the fear due to you?

[12] Teach us to count our days and we will come to the wisdom of the heart.

[13] Turn, Lord; until? Move with pity on your servants.

[14] Satisfy us in the morning with your grace: we will exult and rejoice for all our days.

[15] Give us joy for the days of affliction, for the years in which we have seen misfortune.

[16] Let your works be manifested to your servants and your glory to their children.

[17] May the goodness of the Lord our God be upon us: strengthen for us the work of our hands, the work of our hands strengthen.

Psalm 90 • A prayer of Moses (February 2024)


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