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		Ps 90:1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place [our refuge, our sanctuary, our stability] in all generations.
		Ps 90:2 Before the mountains were born Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.
		Ps 90:3 ¶ You turn man back to dust, And say, "Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!"
		Ps 90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, Or as a watch in the night. [2 Pet 3:8]
		Ps 90:5 You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone]; In the morning they are like grass which grows anew--
		Ps 90:6 In the morning it flourishes and springs up; In the evening it wilts and withers away.
		Ps 90:7 ¶ For we have been consumed by Your anger And by Your wrath we have been terrified.
		Ps 90:8 You have placed our wickedness before you, Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.
		Ps 90:9 For all our days pass away in Your wrath; We have finished our years like a whispered sigh. [Num 14:26-35]
		Ps 90:10 The days of our life are seventy years-- Or even, if because of strength, eighty years; Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow, For it is soon gone and we fly away.
		Ps 90:11 Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?] And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?
		Ps 90:12 So teach us to number our days, That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.
		Ps 90:13 ¶ Turn, O LORD [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be? Be compassionate toward Your servants--revoke Your sentence.
		Ps 90:14 O satisfy us with Your lovingkindness in the morning [now, before we grow older], That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
		Ps 90:15 Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us, And the years we have suffered evil.
		Ps 90:16 Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants And Your [glorious] majesty to their children.
		Ps 90:17 And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us; Confirm for us the work of our hands-- Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

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