Psalms 90
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Umkhuleko kaMosi umuntu kaNkulunkulu. Thixo, wena ulikhaya lethu kuzozonke izizukulwane.
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.
Izintaba zingakabikhona lalapho ungakawuvezi umhlaba kanye lelizwe, kusukela phakade kuze kube phakade unguNkulunkulu.
3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
Ubuyisela abantu ethulini, usithi, “Buyelani othulini, lina madodana abantu.”
4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Ngoba iminyaka eyinkulungwane ekuboneni kwakho injengosuku olusanda kudlula, kumbe njengomlindo webusuku.
5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Uyabakhucula abantu ebuthongweni bokufa; banjengotshani obutsha obekuseni
6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.
lokuba ekuseni buhluma bubutsha, kuthi ntambama sebomile sebubunile.
7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
Ulaka lwakho luyasitshabalalisa sithuthumeliswe yikucaphuka kwakho.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
Usubuchayile ububi bethu phambi kwakho, izono zethu zensitha wazichaya ekukhanyeni kobukhona bakho.
9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Zonke insuku zethu ziyedlula ngaphansi kolaka lwakho; leminyaka yethu siyiphetha ngokububula.
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.
Ubude bezinsuku zethu buyiminyaka engamatshumi ayisikhombisa loba amatshumi ayisificaminwembili, nxa silamandla; kanti lelobanga layo liluhlupho losizi, ngoba iphanga yedlule, lathi siphaphe nje sedlule.
11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
Ngubani owaziyo amandla olaka lwakho na? Ngoba intukuthelo yakho inkulu njengokwesatshwa okukufaneleyo.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
Sifundise ukubala kuhle insuku zethu, ukuze sizuze inhliziyo yenhlakanipho.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
Phola, Oh Thixo! Koze kube nini kulokhu kunjalo na? Woba lesihawu ezincekwini zakho.
14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Sisuthise ekuseni ngothando lwakho olungaphuthiyo, ukuze sihlabelele ngentokozo sijabule zonke insuku zethu.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Senze sijabule okwensuku ezilingana ukusihlupha kwakho, okwensuku ezilingana lalezo esesabona ngazo ukudubeka.
16 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.
Sengathi imisebenzi yakho ingatshengiswa ezincekwini zakho, inkazimulo yakho ebantwaneni babo.
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.
Sengathi umusa weNkosi uNkulunkulu wethu ungehlela kithi; uqinise umsebenzi wezandla zethu yebo, qinisa umsebenzi wezandla zethu.
