Psalms 90
1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.
A Prayer by Moses, the Man of God. Lord! a dwelling-place, hast, thou, become to us, From generation to generation:
2 Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.
Before, the mountains, were born, Or thou hadst brought forth the earth and the world, Even, from age to age, thou, [wast] GOD.
3 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.
Thou causest man to return unto dust, And hast said—Return, ye sons of Adam!
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,
For, a thousand years, in thine eyes, [are], As yesterday, in that it passed away, Or [as] a watch in the night.
5 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.
Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, [they are] like grass that shooteth up,
6 In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.
In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it is cut down and withered.
7 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.
For we are consumed in thine anger, And, in thy wrath, are we dismayed;
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.
Thou hast set, Our iniquities before thee, Our secret near the luminary of thy face.
9 For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:
For, all our days, decline in thy wrath, —We end our years like a sigh.
10 The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.
The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear
Who knoweth the strength of thine anger? Even, according to the fear of thee, is thy wrath!
12 Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
How to number our days, so grant us to know, That we may win us a heart that hath wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.
Return, Yahweh, oh how long? And have compassion upon thy servants;
14 We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.
Satisfy us, in the morning, with thy lovingkindness, That we may shout aloud and be glad, Throughout all our days.
15 We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.
Make us glad, according to, The days thou hast humbled us, The years we have seen misfortune:
16 Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.
Let thy work, appear unto thy servants, And, thy majesty, upon their children;
17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.
And let the delightfulness of Adonay our God be upon us, —And, the work of our hands, establish thou upon us, Yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.
