We are like grass that is green in the morning but mowed down and withered before the evening shadows fall.

Psalms 90:6-12 We die beneath Your anger, we are overwhelmed by Your wrath. 8 You spread out our sins before you-our secret sins-and see them all. ⁹ No wonder the years are long and heavy here beneath Your wrath. All our days are filled with sighing.

¹⁰ Seventy years are given us! And some may even live to eighty. But even the best of these years are often emptiness and pain; soon they disappear, and we are gone. ¹¹ Who can realize the terrors of Your anger? Which of us can fear You as he should?

¹² Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. Amen.

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