Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Psalm 90:13-17
by: Dale Rood.
These verses have a different tone than the previous verses in this psalm. Yet those verses set the necessary background. These verses are an appeal to the mercy of the Lord. The cause for hope, for overcoming the futility of existence, and for escaping God's wrath lies not in us but in God's mercy. In the Lord and in him alone there is satisfaction (v. 14), rejoicing (vv. 14-15), and purpose for the work of our hands (v. 17).