Psalm 87

Fundamenta ejus

Her foundations are upon the holy hills *

the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Very excellent things are spoken of thee *

thou city of God.

I will think upon Rahab and Babylon *

with them that know me.

Behold ye the Philistines also *

and they of Tyre, with the Morians; lo, there was he born.

And of Sion it shall be reported that he was born in her *

and the most High shall stablish her.

The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people *

that he was born there.

The singers also and trumpeters shall he rehearse *

All my fresh springs shall be in thee.

Psalm 90

Domine, refugium

Lord, thou hast been our refuge *

from one generation to another.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made *

thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.

Thou turnest man to destruction *

again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday *

seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep *

and fade away suddenly like the grass.

In the morning it is green, and groweth up *

but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

For we consume away in thy displeasure *

and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee *

and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

For when thou art angry all our days are gone *

we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years *

yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath *

for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

So teach us to number our days *

that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last *

and be gracious unto thy servants.

O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon *

so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us *

and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

Shew thy servants thy work *

and their children thy glory.

And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us *

prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handywork.