Psalms 90
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
BOOK FOURTH: “A prayer of Moses the man of God.” Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations.
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 yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
Thou turnest man to contrition, and sayest, Return ye children 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 are in thy eyes but as the yesterday when it 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.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning [they grow] like the grass which changeth.
6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.
In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before 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 passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken.
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 this life are seventy years; and if by uncommon vigor they be eighty, yet is their greatness trouble and mishap; for it soon hasteneth off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
Return, O Lord, how long yet? and bethink thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
O satisfy us in the morning with thy kindness, that we may be glad and rejoice throughout all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Cause us to rejoice as many days as those wherein thou hast afflicted us, the years wherein we have seen unhappiness.
16 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.
Let thy act be visible on thy servants, and thy majesty over 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 may the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and the work of our hands do thou firmly establish upon us: yea, the work of our hands—firmly establish thou it.
