You have (A)placed our iniquities before You,
Our (B)secret sins in the light of Your presence.
For (C)all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a [a]sigh.
10 As for the days of our [b]life, [c]they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, (D)eighty years,
Yet their pride is but (E)labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we (F)fly away.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:9 Or whisper
  2. Psalm 90:10 Lit years
  3. Psalm 90:10 Lit in them are

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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