Psalm 90-94

New King James Version

³ You turn man to destruction,
And say, ^(D)“Return, O children of men.”
^4 (E)For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
And like a watch in the night.
⁵ You carry them away like a flood;
^(F)They are like a sleep.
In the morning ^(G)they are like grass which grows up:
⁶ In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
In the evening it is cut down and withers.

⁷ For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we are terrified.
^8 (H)You have set our iniquities before You,
Our ^(I)secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
⁹ For all our days have passed away in Your wrath;
We finish our years like a sigh.
¹⁰ The 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.
¹¹ Who knows the power of Your anger?
For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
^12 (J)So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

¹³ Return, O Lord!
How long?
And ^(K)have compassion on Your servants.
¹⁴ Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy,
^(L)That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!
¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us,
The years in which we have seen evil.
¹⁶ Let ^(M)Your work appear to Your servants,
And Your glory to their children.
^17 (N)And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
And ^(O)establish the work of our hands for us;
Yes, establish the work of our hands.

³ Surely ^(S)He shall deliver you from the snare of the ^[c]fowler
And from the perilous pestilence.
^4 (T)He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and ^[d]buckler.
^5 (U)You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
⁸ Only ^(V)with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.

⁹ Because you have made the Lord, who is ^(W)my refuge,
Even the Most High, ^(X)your dwelling place,
^10 (Y)No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
^11 (Z)For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
¹² In their hands they shall ^[e]bear you up,
^(AA)Lest you ^[f]dash your foot against a stone.
¹³ You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

¹⁴ “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will ^[g]set him on high, because he has ^(AB)known My name.
¹⁵ He shall ^(AC)call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be ^(AD)with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
¹⁶ With ^[h]long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”

^5 (AH)O Lord, how great are Your works!
^(AI)Your thoughts are very deep.
^6 (AJ)A senseless man does not know,
Nor does a fool understand this.
⁷ When ^(AK)the wicked ^[i]spring up like grass,
And when all the workers of iniquity flourish,
It is that they may be destroyed forever.

^8 (AL)But You, Lord, are on high forevermore.
⁹ For behold, Your enemies, O Lord,
For behold, Your enemies shall perish;
All the workers of iniquity shall ^(AM)be scattered.

¹⁰ But ^(AN)my ^[j]horn You have exalted like a wild ox;
I have been ^(AO)anointed with fresh oil.
^11 (AP)My eye also has seen my desire on my enemies;
My ears hear my desire on the wicked
Who rise up against me.

^12 (AQ)The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,
He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the Lord
Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ They shall still bear fruit in old age;
They shall be ^[k]fresh and ^[l]flourishing,
¹⁵ To declare that the Lord is upright;
^(AR)He is my rock, and ^(AS)there is no unrighteousness in Him.

³ The floods have ^[n]lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their waves.
^4 (AW)The Lord on high is mightier
Than the noise of many waters,
Than the mighty waves of the sea.

⁵ Your testimonies are very sure;
Holiness adorns Your house,
O Lord, ^[o]forever.

⁴ They ^(BA)utter speech, and speak insolent things;
All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.
⁵ They break in pieces Your people, O Lord,
And afflict Your heritage.
⁶ They slay the widow and the stranger,
And murder the fatherless.
^7 (BB)Yet they say, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob ^[q]understand.”

⁸ Understand, you senseless among the people;
And you fools, when will you be wise?
^9 (BC)He who planted the ear, shall He not hear?
He who formed the eye, shall He not see?
¹⁰ He who ^[r]instructs the ^[s]nations, shall He not correct,
He who teaches man knowledge?
¹¹ The Lord ^(BD)knows the thoughts of man,
That they are futile.

¹² Blessed is the man whom You ^(BE)instruct, O Lord,
And teach out of Your law,
¹³ That You may give him ^[t]rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not ^[u]cast off His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
¹⁵ But judgment will return to righteousness,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
¹⁷ Unless the Lord had been my help,
My soul would soon have settled in silence.
¹⁸ If I say, “My foot slips,”
Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up.
¹⁹ In the multitude of my anxieties within me,
Your comforts delight my soul.

²⁰ Shall ^(BF)the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law,
Have fellowship with You?
²¹ They gather together against the life of the righteous,
And condemn ^(BG)innocent blood.
²² But the Lord has been my defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ He has brought on them their own iniquity,
And shall ^[v]cut them off in their own wickedness;
The Lord our God shall cut them off.