Psalms 90
1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.
3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
4 For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
5 You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:
6 in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.
10 The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.
13 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad 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.
Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
16 May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.
17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!
And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.
