Psalm 90:17
“And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. ”
KJV
Read in Psalm 90Meaning
Within “Mercy, joy, and established work,” verse 17 ends by asking for God's favor to rest on the community and to establish the work of fragile human hands; this detail advances the unit's argument and should not be detached from the whole psalm.
Read carefully
Read Psalm 90:17 inside its literary unit and the movement of Psalm 90; its imagery and claims are constrained by that context.
Reflection
Respond to the verse's specific emphasis — ends by asking for God's favor to rest on the community and to establish the work of fragile human hands — while reading it together with the surrounding lines of Psalm 90.