Psalms 90
1 BOOK FOURTH: “A prayer of Moses the man of God.” Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations.
A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, thou hast bene our habitation from generation to generation.
2 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.
Before the mountaines were made, and before thou hadst formed the earth, and the world, euen from euerlasting to euerlasting thou art our God.
3 Thou turnest man to contrition, and sayest, Return ye children of men.
Thou turnest man to destruction: againe thou sayest, Returne, ye sonnes of Adam.
4 For a thousand years are in thy eyes but as the yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
For a thousande yeeres in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning [they grow] like the grass which changeth.
Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse:
6 In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.
In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe and withereth.
7 For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken.
For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought.
10 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.
The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.
11 Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?
Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy feare is thine anger.
12 Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.
Teach vs so to nomber our dayes, that we may apply our heartes vnto wisdome.
13 Return, O Lord, how long yet? and bethink thee concerning thy servants.
Returne (O Lord, howe long?) and be pacified toward thy seruants.
14 O satisfy us in the morning with thy kindness, that we may be glad and rejoice throughout all our days.
Fill vs with thy mercie in the morning: so shall we reioyce and be glad all our dayes.
15 Cause us to rejoice as many days as those wherein thou hast afflicted us, the years wherein we have seen unhappiness.
Comfort vs according to the dayes that thou hast afflicted vs, and according to the yeeres that we haue seene euill.
16 Let thy act be visible on thy servants, and thy majesty over their children.
Let thy worke bee seene towarde thy seruants, and thy glory vpon their children.
17 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.
And let the beautie of the Lord our God be vpon vs, and direct thou the worke of our hands vpon vs, euen direct the worke of our handes.
