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, you have been a home to us one generation after another.
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 born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.
4 For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.
5 You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,
6 in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.
7 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.
9 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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 span of our life is seventy years, or, if we are strong, maybe eighty; yet is their breadth but empty toil, for swiftly they go, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy.
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 for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.
16 May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to their children.
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!
Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.
