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, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
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 brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.
3 Turn not man back to [his] low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men?
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.
For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
5 Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep; in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth.
6 In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.
For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
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 all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale [that is told].
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 days of our years [are] seventy years; and if by reason of strength [they are] eighty years, yet [is] their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of thy wrath?
Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy 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.
So teach [us] to number [our] days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.
Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants.
14 We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
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 according to the days [in which] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [in which] we have seen evil.
16 And look upon thy servants, and upon thy works; and guide their children.
Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory 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.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.
