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You turn humanity back into dust,[a]
    saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”(A)
A thousand years in your eyes
    are merely a day gone by,(B)
Before a watch passes in the night,
    [b]you wash them away;(C)
They sleep,
    and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.

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Footnotes

  1. 90:3 Dust: one word of God is enough to return mortals to the dust from which they were created. Human beings were created from earth in Gn 2:7; 3:19.
  2. 90:5 You wash them away: the Hebrew of Ps 90:4–5 is unclear.

12 Teach us to count our days aright,
    that we may gain wisdom of heart.

III

13 Relent, O Lord! How long?
    Have pity on your servants!
14 Fill us at daybreak with your mercy,(A)
    that all our days we may sing for joy.

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17 May the favor of the Lord our God be ours.(A)
    Prosper the work of our hands!
    Prosper the work of our hands!

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