Psalms 90
1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, through every generation, you have been “home” for us!
YHWH, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the universe, from eternity past to eternity future, 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 El.
3 You turn people back into dust, saying, “Return to dust, human beings.”
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 In your eyes, a thousand years are like a day that's already gone; like a few passing hours 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 You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 it sprouts in the morning, fresh and new, but by the evening it is withered and dead.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 We are burned up by your anger, terrified by your fury.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 You have set out our sins before you—our secret sins are visible in the light of your presence.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 Our lives fade away under your anger, coming to an end as quickly as a sigh.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 We live for seventy years—eighty if we have the strength. But even in the prime of life all that we have is hardship and suffering. Soon our lives are over and we're gone.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who can know the power of your anger? Who understands your fury so you can be shown reverence?
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 Teach us to value every one of our days so we can live wisely!
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Lord, how long will it be before you come back to us and have pity on us your servants?
Return, O YHWH, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 Show us every morning your trustworthy love so we may be happy, full of joy throughout our lives.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you made us sad, for all the years we suffered!
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 May we, your servants, see you at work for us again; may our children see your glory.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 May our Lord God be pleased with us, blessing what we do, blessing what we do.
And let the beauty of YHWH our Elohim be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
