Psalm
90 Prayed
The Church in repentance
Lord Jesus, you have been our
dwelling place
throughout
all generations.
Before the mountains were born
or
you brought forth the earth and the world,
from
everlasting to everlasting you are God.
In you we live and move
and
have our being,
because for us there is but one
God, the Father,
from
you all things came
and
for you we live;
and there is but one Lord,
Jesus Christ,
through
you all things came
and
through you we live.
You turn people back to dust,
saying,
“Return to dust, you children of
humanity.”
For a thousand years in your
sight
are
like a day that has just gone by,
or
like a watch in the night.
Yet you are not slow in keeping
your promise,
as
some understand slowness.
You are patient with us,
not
wanting anyone to perish,
but
everyone to come to repentance.
You sweep people away in the
sleep of death,
for
the wages of sin is death;
They are like the new grass of
the morning—
though
in the morning it springs up new,
by
evening it is dry and withered.
But your gift to us is eternal
life
in
Christ Jesus our Lord,
and we have been born again,
not
of perishable seed, but imperishable,
through
the living and enduring word of God.
Yet we are consumed by your
anger
and
terrified by your indignation.
You have set our iniquities
before you,
our
secret sins in the light of your presence.
For we have forsaken our first
love.
We
remember the height from which we have
fallen.
We repent, and want to do
the
things we did at first.
All our days pass away under
your wrath;
we
finish our years with a moan.
We have a reputation of being
alive,
but
we are dead.
The length of our days is
seventy years—
or
eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble
and sorrow,
for
they quickly pass, and we fly away.
So waken us up!
Strengthen
what remains and is about to die,
for
our deeds are not complete in your sight, O
God.
Help us to remember, therefore,
what
we have received and heard in the Bible,
and
to obey it and repent.
Who knows the power of your
anger?
For
your wrath is as great as the fear that is due
you.
For you hold the seven stars in
your right hand
and
walk among the seven golden lampstands:
You are the First and the Last,
you
died and came to life again.
You
have the sharp, double-edged sword.
You are the Son of God,
your
eyes are like blazing fire
and
your feet are like burnished bronze.
You hold the seven spirits of
God
and
the seven stars.
You are holy and true,
and
you hold the key of David.
What you open no one can shut,
and
what you shut no one can open.
You are the Amen, the faithful
and true witness,
the
ruler of God’s creation.
Those whom you love
you
rebuke and discipline.
So teach us to number our days
aright,
that
we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, O Lord Jesus! How long
will it be?
Have
compassion on your servants.
Satisfy us in the morning with
your unfailing love,
that
we may sing for joy and be glad all our
days.
May your love compel us,
because
we are convinced that you died for all,
therefore
all died.
And you died for all,
that
we who live should no longer live for
ourselves,
but for you,
because you died for us
and
you were raised again.
So help us to love one another,
even
as you have loved us.
By this all people will know
that we are your
disciples,
if
we love one another.
Make us glad for as many days
as you have
afflicted
us,
for
as many years as we have seen trouble.
May your deeds be shown to your
servants,
your
splendour to our children.
May the favour of the Lord our
God rest
upon
us;
establish
the work of our hands for us—
yes,
establish the work of our hands.
yes,
establish the work of our hands.
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Psalm 90 Prayed
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