Psalms 90
1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.
Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.
3 Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.
4 For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
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,
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:
which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.
6 In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
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.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.
9 For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.
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.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath
12 So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.
be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.
13 Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.
14 Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.
Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.
17 And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.
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.
