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Psalm 90:17

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
16Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.
17Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
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The repeated plea to establish the work of human hands names a hope that human effort will endure under the favor of God.

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12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Job 22:28You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.Both use the language of being established, though Psalm 90 asks God for it and Job records Eliphaz asserting it.
Proverbs 16:3Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed.Both connect human work with dependence on God: the psalm asks him to establish it, and Proverbs says to commit deeds to him.
1 Corinthians 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.Human hands work in both passages, while God is the one asked to establish the work and named as giving the increase.
Psalm 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to …Both prayers seek something from God himself: his favor in Psalm 90 and the sight of his beauty in Psalm 27.
Psalm 118:25Save us now, we beg you, LORD! LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now.Both prayers repeat their appeal to the Lord, asking him to establish work or send prosperity.
2 Thessalonians 2:16–3:1Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,Both passages look to God's gracious care: the psalm asks for favor, while Paul speaks of comfort and hope through grace.
Isaiah 26:12LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.Both connect human work with God's action: the psalm asks him to establish it, and Isaiah credits him with doing it.
Deuteronomy 2:7For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, the LORD your …Both name the work of human hands, with Deuteronomy recounting God's blessing and Psalm 90 asking him to establish that work.
Psalm 29:2Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Worship the LORD in holy array.The shared thread is addressing the Lord as God; Psalm 29 urges worship, while Psalm 90 asks for favor.
Psalm 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.Both are communal prayers asking God to act for his people, seeking his favor or the shining of his face.
Job 1:10Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance …Satan acknowledges God's blessing on Job's work; Psalm 90 asks God to establish the work of his people's hands.
1 John 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him …The shared thread is belonging to God; the psalm asks for his favor, while John speaks of his children.
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Your work is a fitting subject for prayer, even after hard years. The psalm asks God to establish what human hands have labored to do.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).