Before the [a]mountains were made, and before thou hadst formed the earth, and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art our God.

Thou [b]turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Return ye sons of Adam.

[c]For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:2 Thou hast chosen us to be thy people before the foundations of the world were laid.
  2. Psalm 90:3 Moses by lamenting the frailty and shortness of man’s life moveth God to pity.
  3. Psalm 90:4 Though man thinks his life long, which is indeed most short, yea though it were a thousand years: yet in God’s sight it is as nothing, and as the watch that lasteth but three hours.

Before the mountains were born(A)
    or you brought forth the whole world,
    from everlasting to everlasting(B) you are God.(C)

You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(D)
A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.(E)

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