You have set our unjust ways before You,
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.(A)
For all our days ebb away under Your wrath;
we end our years like a sigh.(B)
10 Our lives last[a] seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are[b] struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:10 Lit The days of our years in them
  2. Psalm 90:10 LXX, Tg, Syr, Vg read Even their span is; Hb obscure

You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins(A) in the light of your presence.(B)
All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.(C)
10 Our days may come to seventy years,(D)
    or eighty,(E) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(F)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(G)

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