Psalms 90
1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
BOOK IV A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.
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 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.
Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'
4 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,
For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 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.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.
For we are consumed in Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we hurried away.
8 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.
Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance.
9 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.
For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath; we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.
10 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.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath
Who knoweth the power of Thine anger, and Thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto Thee?
12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.
Return, O LORD; how long? And let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants.
14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.
O satisfy us in the morning with Thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.
Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, according to the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.
Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory upon their children.
17 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.
And let the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; establish Thou also upon us the work of our hands; yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it.
