Psalm 90

1. LORD, Thou hast been since Thou didst shape  / creation  / Our dwelling place in ev’ry generation.  / Before the mountains were brought forth and  / grounded,  / And Thou the earth and world hadst formed and  / founded,  / From everlasting stands Thy holy throne;  / To everlasting Thou art God a lone.

2. What is our worth when Thou Thy help delayest?  / Thou turnest man back to the dust and sayest,  / “Turn back, O sons of man,” and thus we perish.  / Brief is our life, and vain the things we cherish.  / A thousand of our years are in Thy sight  / A day gone by, a watch gone with the night.

3. Thou sweepest men away, vain in their glory,  / For they are like a fleeting dream before Thee,  / Like grass which springs up in the early morning,  / Like flowers for a while the earth adorning  / That with the dawn unfold on hill and glade:  / By evening time they wither and they fade. / W. van der Kamp, 1972; rev.