Psalms 90
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.
3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.
4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,
5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.
6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.
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.
7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:
10 The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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.
11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.
16 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.
Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes, the work of our hands establish you it.
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.
