Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations

 Psalm 90:1-10

Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning: In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.

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. All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures;  yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

The Hebrew title links this psalm with Moses, though few scholars accept him as the author. It has an almost funereal tone and a somber mood which the book of Ecclesiastes shares. Compared with the eternal nature of God we mortals are as transient as a blade of grass. Our span of life is short, yet even this must be worked out under God's judgment.

Why?

How little is a human being, our life is short and full of trouble and sorrow.

Our life is short like grass in the morning and passes away in the night. But the Lord is an everlasting God.

In God's sight, thousand years like a day bone by. 

A man is living in the world not more than a hundred years, then passed away. What we can boast? Nothing.

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摩西從神的永恆性、超越性來看人的一生！

在無奈中，求神轉回不要離棄我們。

短暫的一生是勞苦愁煩。

從亙古到永遠，可以說是從啟初更早。我們有永恆的思想，卻沒有經驗過，這也是由神而來的概念。一千年如一天……都在表達生命的短暫，沒有價值。人因為罪的關係，生命短暫之外，還在驚惶之中。

人生命70，80年，但是終究是勞苦愁煩，一聲嘆息！

人的希望，身體歸於塵土，我們的靈魂要歸於神那裏。以神為我們的居所，一生才有價值。堅固我們手所做的工：神會記念，不會徒然！

只有神是我們的居所！

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How?

The Lord is alpha and the omega, from the beginning to the everlasting, God is the Lord forever! Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.