Psalms 90
1 A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
2 Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.
3 You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.
4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night,
5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.
6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.
7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.
9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web.
10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.
11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath
12 So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.
13 Relent, LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.
16 Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.
Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.
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.
And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.
