1 ¶ Lord, you have been our refuge in every generation.

2 Before you brought the mountains into existence, or formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

3 You turn man back to dust; saying, Return, you children of men.

4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

5 You sweep them away as with a flood; while they are sleeping: in the morning they are like the grass which grows.

6 In the morning it sprouts, and grows; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.

7 ¶ For we are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your fury.

8 You have set our sins before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

9 For all our days ebb away under your wrath: we end our years like a story that is finished.

10 The length of our lives is seventy years; and if by reason of strength it is eighty years, yet the best of them brings toil and sorrow; for they pass quickly, and we fly away.

11 Who knows how powerful your anger is? or connects your wrath with the fear that is due you.

12 ¶ Teach us to number our days, so that we may learn to be wise.

13 How long, O LORD, until you turn from your fierce anger? and have pity upon your servants.

14 Satisfy us early with your mercy; so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us rejoice for as many days as you have made us suffer, for as many years as we have seen misery.

16 Let your work be revealed to your servants, and your glory be upon their children.

17 May the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and give us success in what we are doing; yes, give us success in what we are doing.

Psalm 91

1 ¶ He who dwells in the secret place of the most High will remain under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: I will trust in my God.

3 Surely he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.

4 He will cover you with his feathers, and you will find refuge under his wings: his truth will be your shield and armor.

5 You will not fear the terror of the night; or the arrow that flies by day;

6 The pestilence that spreads in darkness; or the plague that ravages at noon.

7 A thousand will fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

8 You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.

9 ¶ Because you have made the LORD your refuge, and the most High, your dwelling place;

10 No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your dwelling.

11 For he will give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

12 They will bear you up in their hands, lest you stub your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread upon the lion and serpent: you will trample the young lion and the dinosaur under your feet.

14 Because he clings to me in love, I will rescue him: because he knows my name, I will set him on high.

15 When he calls upon me, I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.

Psalm 92

A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath day.

1 ¶ It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to your name, O most High:

2 To talk about your loving-kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

3 With an instrument of ten strings, a lute; and music upon the lyre.

4 For you have made me glad, LORD, by what you have done: I will shout for joy about what was accomplished by your hand.

5 O LORD, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

6 A dull person cannot understand it; and a fool cannot grasp it.

7 ¶ When the wicked spring up like grass, and all who do wrong flourish; they will be destroyed forever:

8 But you, LORD, are supreme for evermore.

9 Look at your enemies, O LORD, for they will perish; all the workers of iniquity will be scattered.

10 But you will exalt my horn like the horn of a rhinoceros: I will be anointed with fresh oil.

11 My eyes will see the downfall of my enemies, and my ears will hear the doom of the wicked who rise up against me.

12 The righteous will flourish like palm trees: and grow like the cedars in Lebanon.

13 Those who are planted in the house of the LORD will flourish in the courts of our God.

14 They will still bring forth fruit when they are old; they will be green and flourishing;

15 To testify that the LORD is just: my rock, in whom there is no unrighteousness.