Psalms 90

1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.

A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our refuge 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 existed, and [before] the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, You are.

3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.

Turn not man back to [his] low place, whereas you said, Return, you sons 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 your sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.

Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

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 let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

7 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.

For we have perished in your anger, and in your wrath we have been troubled.

8 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.

You have set our transgressions before you: our age is in the light of your 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 gone, and we have passed away in your wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

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.

[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 labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath

Who knows the power of your wrath?

12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.

and [who knows how] to number [his days] because of the fear of your wrath? So manifest your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.

Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated concerning your servants.

14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.

We have been satisfied in the morning with your mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:

15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.

let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein you did afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.

16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.

And look upon your servants, and upon your works; and guide 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 brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do you direct for us the works of our hands.