Psalms 90

1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, You have been a habitation, To us—in generation and generation,

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.

Before mountains were brought forth, And You form the earth and the world, Even from age to age You [are] God.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.

For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.

5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.

You have inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning he changes as grass.

6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.

You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,

9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].

For all our days pined away in Your wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)

10 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.

The days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet their enlargement [is] labor and vanity, For it has been cut off quickly, and we fly away.

11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath.

Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?

12 So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.

Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.

14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [wherein] we have seen evil.

Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.

17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

And let the pleasantness of our God YHWH be on us, And establish on us the work of our hands, Indeed, establish the work of our hands!