Psalms 90
1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge in 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 existed, and [before] the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art.
Before the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 Turn not man back to [his] low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men?
You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.
For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night.
5 Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.
Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning,
6 In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.
which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered.
7 For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.
For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.
8 Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.
Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face.
9 For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.
For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.
10 [As for] the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if [men should be] in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.
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 thy wrath?
Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath?
12 and [who knows how] to number [his days] because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.
O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.
Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.
14 We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:
Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy.
15 let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein thou didst afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.
Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen.
16 And look upon thy servants, and upon thy works; and guide their children.
Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to their children.
17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.
Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do.
