< Psalms 90 >
1 Lord, thou have been our dwelling-place in all generations.
A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, You have been a habitation, To us—in generation and generation,
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.
Before mountains were brought forth, And You form the earth and the world, Even from age to age You [are] God.
3 Thou turn man to destruction, and say, Return, ye sons of men.
You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.
5 Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.
You have inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning he changes as grass.
6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up. In the evening it is cut down, and withers.
In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.
7 For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.
For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.
8 Thou have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
For all our days pined away in Your wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
The days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet their enlargement [is] labor and vanity, For it has been cut off quickly, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?
Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
13 Return, O Jehovah. How long? And relent concerning thy servants.
Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
14 O satisfy us in the morning with thy loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days in which thou have afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.
Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory upon their sons.
Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.
17 And let the favor 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.
And let the pleasantness of our God YHWH be on us, And establish on us the work of our hands, Indeed, establish the work of our hands!